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Hood Feminism

with authors Mikki Kendall and Kierstan Kaushal-Carter

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In recent years, many have zeroed in on the workplace as the site of female oppression; from sexual harassment to unequal career opportunities, women are fighting for their right to work safely and productively. Observing this phenomenon in her work Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot, Mikki Kendall offers a simple but radical counter-argument: today’s iteration of feminism, by ignoring material conditions for survival such as food security, medical care, education, and access to safe housing, has left behind the majority of women. 

Proposing that hunger, homelessness, homophobia, racial discrimination, and more are feminist issues, Kendall takes aim at the blindness of feminist movements toward the everyday experience and needs of women. Reintroducing the intersection of race and class into contemporary feminist lexicon, Kendall writes, is the only way to salvage the movement itself. Until this moment, the commitment to solidarity at the heart of the feminist mission is worth nogthing. Equal parts pointed critique, personal narrative, and call to action, the work refuses to exculpate the women who use feminist mantles to opress others. In this way, Hood Feminism charts a path for true female liberation. The conversation is organized and co-sponsored by Little Africa Paris.

About the speakers:

Mikki Kendall is a writer, cultural critic, diversity consultant, and “occasional feminist.” She speaks and writes on feminist history and race, as well as on police violence and contemporary culture. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The Washington Post, and NBC News; she has appeared on the BBC, NPR, The Daily Show, and PBS. She is the author of graphic novel Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists (2019).

Having received a M.A. in Government from Harvard University and a B.A. in English and American Culture Studies from Washington University in St. Louis., Kierstan Kaushal-Carter is now a fourth-year doctoral student in African and African American Studies at Harvard University, where she is writing about policing in the twenty first century. Her published writing can be found in The St. Louis Anthology, and The New Republic Magazine.

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