Arianna Bustos’s Reviews > Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot > Status Update

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“They could skip the dramatic shows of support for predators and instead support their own freedoms.”

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“When you know that oppression comes not from one direction but many, then you have to develop a framework that allows for not finding safety or solidarity with those who oppress people who look like you.”
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“They create a framework where they need people of color, especially Black women, to be perfect representatives of a brave feminist they refuse to embody themselves.”

“Whether their justification is being against abortion or the misguided belief that the racism and sexism espoused by the affirmative action while undermining the very concepts that gave them access to power.”

“I am obligated not only to give back, but to challenge erasure and disrespect where I find it, because the children I am raising an the children who are being raised need to see that they are the inheritors of a proud enduring legacy forged here by the people who were put into chains and the people who broke them.”

“It’s the commodification of Black cool on white bodies, it is the narrative that black American hypervisibility with power and privilege.”

“I can bee lay clam to those cultures, because they are not mine, not even if I move into one of the countries that would pop up on a DNA test. That road is closed. That’s okay; there is a way forward. We always go forward.”

“Even now beauty is complicated by class, the quality of hair purchased for a weave, the brand of clothes that can be afforded—these are all marked that signal whether your body has a right to be in the space it is occupying.”

“So it serves no one to feign ignorance of what it means to capitalize on fetishization and exoticism without doing anything to combat the problems most likely to be faced by those who are disadvantaged by these standards.”