Mikki Kendall – Jill Grinberg Literary Management

Mikki Kendall

Mikki Kendall is a writer, speaker, and diversity consultant whose work tackles race, intersectionality, policing, gender, and many other topics. Her New York Times and IndieBound bestselling essay collection Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot was published in February 2020 by Viking Books, and was named one of TIME‘s Must-Read Books of 2020, and has sold in six foreign territories. Her writing can be found in various outlets including Time.com, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Ebony, Essence, Salon, xoJane, Bustle, and Islamic Monthly, and was anthologized in Wonder Women of History from DC Comics. She has been interviewed by a number of media outlets including the BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, Showtime, and appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Good Morning America. Known as @Karnythia on Twitter, she has over 150,000 followers and created a number of viral hashtags, including #solidarityisforwhitewomen, #HistoricPOC, and #fasttailedgirls. She is also the author of the graphic novel Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights. She lives with her family in Chicago.

Agent

Jill Grinberg

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

A New York Times and IndieBound bestseller

Today’s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. That feminists refuse to prioritize these issues has only exacerbated the age-old problem of both internecine discord and women who rebuff at carrying the title. Moreover, prominent white feminists broadly suffer from their own myopia with regard to how things like race, class, sexual orientation, and ability intersect with gender. How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others?

In her searing collection of essays, Mikki Kendall takes aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women. Drawing on her own experiences with hunger, violence, and hypersexualization, along with incisive commentary on politics, pop culture, the stigma of mental health, and more, Hood Feminism delivers an irrefutable indictment of a movement in flux. An unforgettable debut, Kendall has written a ferocious clarion call to all would-be feminists to live out the true mandate of the movement in thought and in deed.

Praise for Hood Feminism

“In expertly tying the racial justice and feminist movements together, Kendall’s is one of the most important books of the current moment.” –TIME

“This book is an act of fierce love and advocacy, and it is urgently necessary.” –Samantha Irby, author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

“Mikki’s book is a rousing call to action for today’s feminists. This book armed me with hard facts and compelling arguments that I can bring to this all-important fight. Hood Feminism should be required reading for everyone.” –Gabrielle Union, author of We’re Going to Need More Wine

Publisher

Viking

Publication Date

February 25, 2020

Age Category

Adult

Genre

Nonfiction/Feminism

Rights

JGLM