The I Index

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Top of the pile

75

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

91/100

Critics

36/100

Scholars

99/100

Author:

Mikki Kendall

Publisher:

Viking

Date:

February 25, 2020

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues.

What The Reviewers Say

Ericka Taylor,
NPR
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.
Julie Lythcott-Haims,
The Washington Post
... bracing.
LaToya Council,
The Women's Review of Books
... powerful and timely.
Nesrine Malik,
The Guardian (UK)
There will be no reverence here, no tiptoeing around mainstream feminism’s dreams, no grateful acceptance of a black space that is in the gift of white proprietors.