A review by paigieodo
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

informative fast-paced

3.5

good primer on intersectional feminism that doesn’t have much opportunity to go into depth on many of its topics. could offer a very good overview for anyone just beginning to explore feminism. can sometimes be frustrating as it brings up challenging ideas, but moves passed them too quickly. that’s the nature of this kind of book, however. i suspect kendall would be well equipped to write a longer essay or even a book on many of the segments here that are confined to one chapter. the most interesting of the chapters were those on “fast tailed girls”, racist beauty standards, education, and reproductive feminism. these are the areas where she has the most unique and interesting ideas. other areas lack depth and suffer from disconnectedness and weak examples.