Part memoir, part analysis, part manuscript for the future, Mikki Kendall's Hood Feminism is hard to pin down to a category. While there were many great parts, something that struck me is Kendall's exploration of obesity and hunger. A few years ago, I worked with the City of Philadelphia as a Mayor's Intern. At the time, there was a lot of talk about the new soda tax and my boss, a Black woman who had grown up in North Philadelphia, was adamantly against it. At the time, I couldn't fully understand her perspective - after all, shouldn't people want less soda and more money for the library? Reading Kendall's Hood Feminism made me realize the many class assumptions I had to make to support the soda tax. For example, like Kendall's Chicago, many neighborhoods in Philadelphia lack access to clean water or safe housing conditions. In these conditions, it makes sense to use whatever resources are available to you - including high calorie soda. In fact, the tax would only apply to the poorest folk, those who couldn't leave the city to avoid the tax. I love reading this level of analysis & much needed perspective on public policy.