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

“Black women are expected to manage their identities and sexual reputations in order to fit into a mixture of virgin and vixen constructs•

“Work against the cultural memes that render it acceptable to foster the hypersexualization of potential targets based on skin color,gender, expression, or age.”

“Portraying men of color as sexually voracious and preying on innocent white women reinforces a cultural obsession with black on white stranger rape, at the expense of the vastly more common intra-racial acquaintance rape.”

“The idea that poor white people are morally and socially inept, too ignorant to be a part of the wider world, excuses them from the racist systems that they lack the access to create even when they benefit from them.”

“And that is why we see increasing rates, even as gun violence declined in urban areas—though it’s not a fact commonly cited in the news.”

“How does feminism reconcile itself to that kind of wound between groups without addressing the racism that caused it?

There’s nothing feminist about having so many resources at your fingertips and choosing to be ignorant. Nothing empowering or enlightening in deciding that intent trumps impact.”

“He was dragged into their personal narrative in part because of the unspoken assumption that he owed a white woman who wanted it his attention.”