Aoife - Bookish_Babbling's Reviews > Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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

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Sometimes solidarity is just that simple; step up, reach back and keep pushing forward.

This book has given me a heck of a lot to think about. Breaking feminism down to its barebones and highlighting how it impacts so much more than women in the workplace. I am inordinately privileged to have grown up where hunger, housing and gun violence have not impacted my life and have had my eyes blown open to how much more should be done & not ignored/brushed aside till later.

Highly recommend!
It might be uncomfortable at times - but if I've learned anything from 2020 so far it's to keep on pushing and the more uncomfortable something might be to hear doesn't mean it is not worth listening to, working to better understand and re-examine my perception of the world vs the one we all share.

Privilege not only blinds you to oppression it blinds you to your own ignorance even when you notice the oppression.

I listened to the audio version which was narrated by the author herself and cannot recommend this highly enough.

Everyone should be angry about injustice, not just those experiencing it.