Tamela Gordon's Reviews > Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women

This book is candid in its storytelling and accurate in how it captures Black women's experience. It’s well-cited without being too heavy, intimate without exploiting our collective experience, and bold in it's calling out of everyone and every space that doesn’t honor our vulnerability and humanity.

“Corner” was an essay that cut deep, examining our experiences with street harassment and adultification.

The concept of the "Ride or Die" companion romanticizes selfless - often ill-advised loyalty. There's nothing romantic about unconditional dedication and servitude. And the ideology haunts Black women's well-being, finding its way into the workplace, places of worship, and our households. Hubbard illuminates how ride-or-die mentality appears in our lives and relationships and how we can dismantle the racial trope and divest from it.

Hubbard may be a professor, but she delivers truth like a true round the way girl, making “Ride or Die” as accessible to scholars as it is to the target audience, us. Have a highlighter and box of tissues on deck because parts demand meditation and pull at the heartstrings. Easily one of my new favorite Black feminist theory books.