![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How HBO Is the Most LGBTQ+ Friendly Network.In powerful, eloquent essays, Kendall highlights how the movement’s myopia has failed Black women, Indigenous women, and trans women, among others, and how feminism must shift its focus away from increasing privilege in favor of solving issues that shape the daily lives of women everywhere. Hood Feminism is a searing indictment of whitewashed, Lean In feminism, with Kendall calling for the movement to embrace inclusivity, intersectionality, and anti-racism. This is the thesis of Hood Feminism, an urgent and essential text about the failure of modern feminism to address the needs of all but a few privileged women. ![]() For a movement that is meant to represent all women, it often centers on those who already have most of their needs met.” Instead of a framework that focuses on helping women get basic needs met, all too often the focus is not on survival but on increasing privilege. Food insecurity and access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. In Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot, writer and feminist scholar Mikki Kendall writes, “We rarely talk about basic needs as a feminist issue. ![]()
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