The Galerstein Gender Center will be hosting and facilitating a monthly book club and will be reading Mikki Kendall's "Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot ". The book club has two sections, the Student section will meet at 2pm and the Staff/Faculty section will meet at 12pm on selected Wednesdays.

We will be providing books to the first 15 book club registrants for free!

The GGC Book Club Meet & Greet will be held on September 8th from 12pm-1pm at virtually via Microsoft Teams. You will receive your free book via pick-up at the Gender Center if you have any access issues please contact us . It's essential that you attend all meetings.

Student Schedule

2pm-3pm

September 29th

October 27th

November 17th

Staff & Faculty Schedule

12pm-1pm

September 29th

October 27th

November 17th

Review:

“A brutally candid and unobstructed portrait of mainstream white feminism.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist

A potent and electrifying critique of today’s feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminism

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.