Loved Backtalker by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw for naming intersectional erasures head-on? Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall refuses to let anyone off the hook.

If Backtalker gave you the language to dissect how power collapses complexity into convenient categories, Mikki Kendall refuses to let mainstream feminism forget who it leaves behind. She brings the same unsparing intersectional lens to the movement itself—excavating how well-intentioned progressives replicate the erasures they claim to oppose. This is internal critique as activist toolkit, grounded in survival rather than theory-for-theory's-sake.

Kendall speaks to the same audience Crenshaw trusts: thinkers who don't need structural violence translated into digestible metaphors. Her confrontational clarity demands you reckon with overlapping marginalizations that polite discourse conveniently sidesteps.

This is internal critique as activist toolkit, grounded in survival rather than theory-for-theory's-sake.