The chapter ‘Hunger’ talks about food poverty, and how modern feminism thinks of it as an abstract feminist issue concerning women around the world who live in poverty, and what could be done to help them.
The book itself is structured in chapters themed around broad social issues where Kendall describes what the issue is, discusses her knowledge and personal experience with it, and then goes on to explain exactly why this is not only a feminist issue, but one that white feminism often neglects to acknowledge as such. So as a Black woman who does her best to read well, who considers herself an intersectional feminist and actively anti-racist, what could I gain from this book? Well, first let’s break down what the book itself is about and what the term “Hood Feminism” actually means. It acts as a reminder that you shouldn’t need a degree to understand and critique modern feminism. While this may not cause the well-read, actively anti-racist, intersectional feminists’ synapses to start firing, I think its tone and accessibility is refreshing.
It is important to the overall idea of Hood Feminism that it is readable, cites a mixture of statistics, pop culture references, and lived experiences, and explains its concepts to the reader clearly. Whether it’s academic jargon, references to essays or books that most people who haven’t fervently studied the subject would know, or off-hand mentions of what are actually quite complex concepts.
I think it’s important to praise accessible language when you come across it in non-fiction, especially relating to social justice or feminism, because so often these books can be inundated with, frankly, classist barriers to entry in the language used. Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism is, first and foremost, accessible.
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