The book is not conventionally organized indeed, it produces many overlaps as it addresses a constellation of issues that inform and encroach upon the lives of women of color: solidarity, poverty, racism, the patriarchy, violence, fear, public health, education, allyship. The book frames feminism as a movement that needs to incorporate the highly contextualized issues that affect different kinds of women rather than limit itself to the demands and hardships of a particular community. ” Across eighteen different essays, she tackles a plethora of issues often overlooked by white feminists and argues that white feminism, by advancing the claims of white women alone, adds to the oppression of other marginalized groups, such as women of color, Indigenous populations, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. Kendall declares her own feminism to be “rooted in an awareness of how race and gender and class all affected ability to be educated, receive medical care, gain and keep employment, as well as how those things can sway authority figures in their treatment of. In Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot, author Mikki Kendall calls for practice-oriented feminism: one that moves beyond academic theories and manifests amidst the struggle for survival that characterizes the lives of various groups. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot
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