Mikki Kendall’s book, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot, takes an intersectional approach in explicating feminist issues ranging from community gun violence and maternal mortality to parenting obstacles and adolescent sexuality. Kendall asserts that the insufficient attention these issues receive is the result of a White Feminist paradigm that prioritizes the needs of middle-class, cisgender, white women at the peril of all other women with compounding marginalized identities. Thus, White Feminism fails those who are most likely to experience the disparate impact that capitalism and patriarchy have on women’s lives and become complicit in capitalist, patriarchal oppression through the maintenance of white supremacy.

Counselors who are attempting to advance their knowledge of anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices would benefit from reading Hood Feminism to add breadth to their understanding of the various life stressors and cultural traumas likely to be endured by their clients experiencing intersectional gender, sexuality, class, and race oppressions. Beyond application to client populations, reading this book offers counselors the opportunity to self-reflect on gaps in awareness, knowledge, skills, and action in terms of their multicultural competence levels. Counselor educators may also benefit from using this as a supplemental resource in classroom discussions about current events that are of consequence to counselors and clients in various communities.