Status Updates From Hood Feminism: Notes from t...

“When the work centers on the most marginalized targets of sexual harassment and abuse, it benefits not only their communities, but all communities.”

“It’s hard to take a rich woman’s children; it is remarkably easy to take a poor woman’s, though. […] Indeed, we treat poverty itself like a crime, like the women experiencing it are making bad choices for themselves and their children on purpose.”

“We had a child, […] and we kept trying to be a family despite the violence that seemed to be the other child we were raising.”

“It’s that internal impression that whiteness enacts on itself that helps create a narrative that the world is out to get working-class white people— and that people of color are specifically at fault for their problems.”

“We can’t let respectability politics […] create an idea that only some women are worth of respect or protection. […] No woman has to be respectable to be valuable.”