Mikki Kendall
Author, activist and cultural critic
Mikki Kendall is a Chicago-based author, activist and cultural critic. She wrote Hood Feminism, a work of political nonfiction on feminism.
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American Born 1976 in Chicago, United States
About Mikki Kendall
Mikki Kendall is an author, activist and cultural critic, and a veteran. She often writes about news events, how the media portrays people, food politics and the history of feminism. She has lived and worked in Chicago, and began blogging in 2003 under the pen name Karnythia. In August 2013 she started the hashtag #solidarityisforwhitewomen, which sparked a global conversation about racism and representation in feminist circles. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Washington Post and Time. Hood Feminism, her political nonfiction book, came out in early 2020. She also wrote the graphic novel Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists, published in 2019, and has worked on comics including Swords of Sorrow and Princeless.