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Quotes from Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot — Mikki Kendall

born 1976 United States

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10 quotes

Sometimes being a good ally is about opening the door for someone instead of insisting that your voice is the only one that matters.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

There is no shame in asking for help; it takes strength to admit you need it.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

America loves the myth of a meritocracy more than anything else, because it lets us ignore the reality of the impact of bigotry.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

No woman has to be respectable to be valuable.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

Politeness as filtered through fragility and supremacy isn't about manners; it's about a methodology of controlling the conversation.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

The problem has never been the ways that victims don’t tell, so much as it has been that some victims aren’t seen as valuable enough to protect.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

We have to be willing to embrace the full autonomy of people who are less privileged and understand that equity means making access to opportunity easier, not deciding what opportunities they deserve.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

For women of color, the expectation that we prioritize gender over race, that we treat the patriarchy as something that gives all men the same power, leaves many of us feeling isolated.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

An intersectional approach to feminism requires understanding that too often mainstream feminism ignores that Black women and other women of color are the proverbial canaries in the coal mine of hate.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mikki Kendall (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.