A review by ctgarcialeon
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Daisy Hernández, Bushra Rehman

5.0

Oh, how much I needed this book. It is nourishment for the soul for women of color. It has a wonderful mix of scholarly work and personal essays. Although some essays are better written than others, all of them speak to the diversity of issues that effect women of color. I related so much to essays like Dutiful Hijas: Dependency, Power, and Guilt by Erica Gonzalez Martinez, and learned so much from others, like It's Not an Oxymoron: The Search for an Arab Feminism by Susan Muaddi Darraj. Others made me pause and do some deep soul searching, like Organizing 101: A Mixed Race Feminist in Movements for Social Justice by Lisa Weiner Mahfuz. The entire collection brings home the fact that a true feminism must speak to a greater variety of issues and experiences than (for lack of a better term) mainstream feminism. Although some of the essays are a decade (or more) old, they still hit home. This is a must read for anyone who wants to learn about and understand the evolution of women of color feminism.