Mikki Kendall Explained

Mikki Kendall
Birth Date:23 October 1976
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois, United States
Occupation:Writer
Language:English
Genres:Essays
Cultural critic
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Notablework:Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists
Hood Feminism
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Mikki Kendall (born October 23, 1976) is an author, activist, and cultural critic. Her work often focuses on current events, media representation, the politics of food, and the history of the feminist movement. Penguin Random House published her graphic novel Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists in 2019, while her political nonfiction book Hood Feminism was released in early 2020.[1]

Early life and education

Kendall was born in Chicago, Illinois[1] on October 23, 1976[2] and was raised in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.[3] Kendall is a 2005 graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.[4] Kendall also has a Masters in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University.[5] [6]

Career

A veteran of the United States Army,[3] Kendall worked in government service until 2013 when she left her job at the Department of Veterans Affairs[7] to pursue her writing career full-time.

Kendall is currently an essayist and cultural critic. She has written for The Guardian,[8] The Boston Globe,[9] NBC News,[10] The Washington Post,[11] Bustle,[12] Essence[13] and Eater[14] (with her essay in Eater "Hot Sauce in Her Bag" named a Best Food Essay by the Association of Food Journalists[15]). She has appeared as a cultural commentator on NPR,[16] Al Jazeera English,[17] and the BBC.[18]

She is recognizable as a member of Black Twitter.[19] Kendall is also the creator of the viral Twitter hashtags

  1. SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen
,[20] which criticized racism in the feminist movement,[21] as well as #FastTailedGirls, a reference to the hypersexualization of Black girls, and #FoodGentrification, about the marginalization of traditional foods by commercial interest.[3]

Kendall edited the science-fiction anthology Hidden Youth for Crossed Genres Press in 2016.[22] Kendall's graphic novel history Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights was released in November 2019 by Ten Speed Press[23] and her political-nonfiction book was released in February 2020 by Viking Books.[24] It criticizes the feminist movement for being largely "the province of the privileged" and ignoring problems that disproportionately impact communities of color, including poverty, housing, medical care, and racism.[25]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

Books

TitlePublisherYearISBNNote
Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History[27] Crossed Genres Publications2016Editor (with Chesya Burke)
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights[28] Ten Speed Press2019illustrated by A. D'Amico
[29] Viking Press2020

Recent essays

TitlePublicationDateNote
When Black Girls Hear That ‘Our Bodies Are All Wrong’ The New York TimesFebruary 21, 2020[30]
Feminism Claims to Represent All Women. So Why Does It Ignore So Many of Them?TimeFebruary 24, 2020[31]
The Neoliberal Misunderstanding of Black EducationLiterary HubFebruary 27, 2020[32]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Authors N.K. Jemisin and Mikki Kendall. Chicago Public Library. September 20, 2019.
  2. Kendall, Mikki . Karnythia . 1054710379392221185 . October 23, 2018 . I'm 42 today. . en . https://twitter.com/Karnythia/status/1054710379392221185 . February 24, 2020 .
  3. Web site: Mikki Kendall and Her Online Beefs with White Feminists by Theodore Ross. Vice News. May 30, 2014. September 20, 2019.
  4. Web site: After Being Denied A Snow Day, University Of Illinois Students Respond With Racism And Sexism . Jha, Rega . January 27, 2014 . BuzzFeed.com . September 20, 2019.
  5. Web site: The Neoliberal Misunderstanding of Black Education . Kendall, Mikki . February 27, 2020 . Literature Hub . July 28, 2020.
  6. Web site: DEPAUL WELL REPRESENTED ON NEWCITY LIT 50 LIST. August 19, 2020 . DePaul Newsline. June 23, 2021.
  7. News: I've seen what a mess Veterans Affairs is. Ronny L. Jackson can't fix it by Mikki Kendall. The Washington Post. September 20, 2019.
  8. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/mikki-kendall The Guardian Page for Mikki Kendall
  9. https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/08/17/racists-under-radar-recruitment/0grfCWbS7i4ZoPxRKnm9yN/story.html Racists’ under-the-radar recruitment
  10. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/beyonc-s-brown-skin-girl-controversial-because-its-inclusionary-vision-ncna1034686 Beyoncé's 'Brown Skin Girl' is controversial because of its inclusionary vision of female beauty
  11. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/04/17/there-are-two-americas-in-one-you-can-get-arrested-for-sitting-in-a-starbucks/ There are two Americas. In one, you can get arrested for sitting in a Starbucks
  12. Web site: Mikki Kendall Author Page, Bustle . September 20, 2019 . http://web.archive.org/web/20230202114437/https://www.bustle.com/profile/mikki-kendall-1909731 . dead . February 2, 2023.
  13. https://www.essence.com/authors/mikki-kendall-0/ Mikki Kendall Author Page
  14. https://www.eater.com/2016/2/10/10959538/hot-sauce-in-her-bag-beyonce-black-southern-identity Hot Sauce in Her Bag
  15. Web site: AFJ winners in 2018 Food Journalism Competition . Association of Food Journalists . September 20, 2019 . http://web.archive.org/web/20210506014802/https://www.afjonline.com/awards-archive . usurped . May 6, 2021.
  16. https://www.npr.org/2013/12/04/248779490/five-years-in-should-the-first-lady-do-more Five Years In, Should The First Lady Do More?
  17. One example is Quraishi, Ash-har (host); Kendall, Mikki; Brown, Lizz; Tau, Byron & Robinson, Rashad (panel guests) . August 23, 2014 . Al Jazeera English: Listening Post—Ferguson and the Media . streaming TV segment . Unknown time. . Doha, Qatar . Al Jazeera Media Network .
  18. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038hfdf Fidan Hajiyeva; Is feminism racist?
  19. https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/black-feminists-alt-right-twitter-gamergate.html The Black Feminists Who Saw the Alt-Right Threat Coming
  20. Web site: #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen: women of color's issue with digital feminism . Kendall . Mikki . August 14, 2013 . The Guardian . March 1, 2020.
  21. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/solidarityisforwhitewomen-creator-mikki-kendal-women-of-color-feminism-_n_3749589
    1. SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen Creator, Mikki Kendal, Speaks About Women Of Color, Feminism
  22. https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9913921-3-1 Review of Hidden Youth, edited by Mikki Kendall and Chesya Burke
  23. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/570408/amazons-abolitionists-and-activists-by-mikki-kendall-and-a-damico/9780399581793/ Page for Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists
  24. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586743/hood-feminism-by-mikki-kendall/9780525560548/ Page for Hood Feminism
  25. Hood Femiism: Notes From the Women a Movement Forgot(Chicago: Penguin Random House, 2020) p.223
  26. Web site: Mikki Kendall In Conversation with Ashley Finley via YouTube. February 23, 2021 . Penguin Random House . June 23, 2021.
  27. Web site: Out of Print Titles: Hidden Youth . . Crossed Genres Publications . March 1, 2020.
  28. Web site: Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists . . Kirkus Reviews . September 10, 2019 . March 1, 2020.
  29. Web site: 'Hood Feminism' Is A Call For Solidarity In A Less-Than-Inclusive Movement . Taylor . Ericka . NPR . February 26, 2020 . March 1, 2020.
  30. Web site: When Black Girls Hear That 'Our Bodies Are All Wrong' . Kendall . Mikki . February 21, 2020 . The New York Times . March 1, 2020.
  31. Web site: Feminism Claims to Represent All Women. So Why Does It Ignore So Many of Them? . Kendall . Mikki . February 24, 2020 . Time . March 1, 2020.
  32. Web site: The Neoliberal Misunderstanding of Black Education . Kendall . Mikki . February 27, 2020 . Literary Hub . March 1, 2020.

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