Author Mikki Kendall
Author Mikki Kendall contends in her book Hood Feminism that mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue. In her view, food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. In this online program, Kendall will discuss the true mandate of the feminist movement with Michi Trota, a five-time Hugo Award winner and British Fantasy Award winner.
This program is presented by Friends of the Edgewater Library in partnership with the Edgewater Branch Library. Register here for this Zoom virtual program here.
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More About Mikki and Michi
In addition to her work as a writer, Mikki Kendall is a diversity consultant who describes herself as an “occasional feminist who talks a lot about intersectionality, policing, gender, sexual assault, and other current events.”
Another of her books, Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists, is a graphic history of the fight for women’s rights and is a resource for people of all genders interested in the fight for a more liberated future.
Mikki’s essays can be found at TIME, the New York Times, The Guardian, the Washington Post, Ebony, Essence, Salon, The Boston Globe, NBC, Bustle, Islamic Monthly, and a host of other sites. Her media appearances include BBC, NPR, the Daily Show, PBS, Good Morning America, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, WVON, WBEZ, and Showtime. She has discussed race, feminism, education, food politics, police violence, tech, and pop culture at institutions and universities across the country.
Copies of Mikki Kendall’s books, Hood Feminism and Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists, may be purchased from Women & Children First bookstore or reserved through the Chicago Public Library’s website.
Michi Trota | Photo by Michael Wilson
Michi Trota is editor-in-chief of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and senior editor of Prism. She also is co-editor of the WisCon Chronicles Vol. 12 with Isabel Schechter (Aqueduct Press), and was the first managing editor/nonfiction editor of Uncanny Magazine.
Michi has written for Chicago Magazine, and was the exhibit text writer for Worlds Beyond Here: Expanding the Universe of APA Science Fiction at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, WA. She's been featured in publications like the 2016 Chicago Reader People Issue, Chicago Tribune and The Guardian, and has spoken at the Adler Planetarium, the Chicago Humanities Festival, and on NPR. Michi is a fire spinner with the Raks Geek Fire+Bellydance troupe, past president of the Chicago Nerd Social Club Board of Organizers, and lives with her spouse and their two cats in Chicago.