As you all know, I consider myself a feminist. I got a minor in Women’s Studies in college along with my engineer degree, and that was the “thing” that I did for myself. But after reading Hood Feminism I want to question whether or not I can say that about myself.

2020 brought alot of things to the surface not just for me, but for America if not the world. And for me alot of that is my own privledge. I was able to go to a private school K-12 and able to get an engineering degree and stay employed in the field since graduation. I am lucky. And some of the time I know I don’t realize exactly how lucky I am. But reading this book make me see it a bit more clearly.

Growing up and even now, I tend to make fun of my dad for living “hood adjacent”. My mom lived more of a middle class lifestyle, while my dad lived with his parents and three siblings. I have stayed with his mother at times growing up and I have to say that there were times that I didn’t feel comfortable being where she lived and times where people called me out for being out of place because “I didn’t talk like I lived there”. I mean my grandmother has even told me that I sound like a white woman on the phone.

Reading this book however has made me more aware of my privledge (just emphasizing what 2020 already taught me) and made me realize I need to do more. I now have an understanding of what it was like growing up in the hood, and realized that with all of my talk of being a feminist and a steminist I should be doing more. I would give this book four out of five stars.