What Does 'Hood Feminism' Mean For A Pandemic?

Code Switch

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🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated issues that disproportionately affect women. So on this episode, we're talking to Mikki Kendall — author of the new book, Hood Feminism — about what on-the-ground feminism practiced by women of color can teach us that the mainstream feminist movement has forgotten.

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0:00.0	I'm Jean Demby.
0:01.0	I'm Shereen Marisol Miraji and this is Code Switch.
0:04.3	From NPR.
0:05.6	A disaster for feminism is how the Atlantic described this pandemic.
0:13.5	The New York Times wrote that it's forcing families to quote confront the bruising reality
0:19.7	of gender dynamics as the country is trapped at home.
0:23.2	And of course, you already know if this is tough on women in the aggregate, it's going
0:27.8	to be especially hard for women of color.
0:30.8	Exactly.
0:31.8	So on this episode, we're talking about race, feminism, and what those two things have
0:37.1	to do with the COVID pandemic.
0:39.4	And to get into all of this, we're bringing in our Code Switch teammate and senior correspondent
0:43.3	Karen Gritzby-Bades.
0:44.3	Hey KGB.
0:45.3	Hey KGB.
0:46.3	Hi Shereen.
0:47.3	Hey Jean.
0:48.3	Okay, so we should stipulate here that Karen is our Karen.
0:52.4	She's not of the genus Karen because we're about to be talking about white femininity.
0:56.2	Thank you very much.
0:57.2	I am not that Karen.
0:59.1	So KGB, what you got for us?
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