A review by bookreviewswithkb
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism by Jenn M. Jackson

hopeful informative reflective

4.5

thank you SO much to @netgalley and @randomhouse for the review copy! 

i love what Dr. Jackson did in this book! they look back at the work of Black feminists to provide a framework for how to move forward, towards a just world for everyone. they lift up the voices that are often left out of the conversation, from Ida B. Wells to bell hooks, and examines the work Black feminist leaders engaged in that has laid the foundation for the work today. they show how Black women are minimized and their work erased, but their impact and efforts keep persisting, and how the author was personally impacted in their own revolutionary work by each of the featured women 

i highly recommend reading this book and reading more work by all the women featured! Dr. Jackson also blessed us with a reading list at the end. the importance of reading and learning from and uplifting the work of Black women, Black trans women and non-binary folx is essential