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

“My targets tend to be up, not down or sideways, from where I sit.”

“My aunt who did live there was more than willing to Feb him off with her courage and a bottle ready to go upside his head. What I remember most about that night isn’t the gun or the drunken ranting. It’s that after her left, she sat down to do her homework and I sat down with her to do mine. I wasn’t her child, but she was co-parenting me with my grandparents, and there was work to be done.”

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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.”