In 'Hood Feminism,' Mikki Kendall reveals how feminism has failed to consider populations too often excluded from the movement's banner — and failed to weigh the breadth of issues affecting the daily lives of millions.
If you're someone who claims the mantel of feminism, who believes in the innate equality of all genders, who thinks that solidarity among communities of women is a core component of the world you want to live in, I strongly encourage you to read Mikki Kendall's debut essay collection,As the subtitle makes clear, Kendall's central thesis is that mainstream feminism in the United States has been anything but inclusive, despite being"a movement that draws much of its strength from...
Securing that equality, Kendall argues, requires that women accept some inconvenient truths, specifically"the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others.... [W]hite women can oppress women of color, straight women can oppress lesbian women, cis women can oppress trans women, and so on.
Throughout, Kendall thoughtfully and deliberately takes mainstream feminism to task for failing to take on the fight of Black maternal mortality, for an overdependence on carceral solutions, for not"considering who is being put at risk by the ways that racist tropes are bolstered in feminist circles," especially when considering that"white men are the most likely of all groups of men to commit sexual assault.
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