Destiny Rae Jones

Author: Destiny Jones

  • Book Review: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot, Mikki Kendall

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    Navigating the world as a woman can be extremely taxing. Whether it’s mentally, physically, or emotionally, all individuals struggle or experience hardships during at least one part of their lives. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall focuses primarily on marginalized groups such as Black women and other women…

  • Absence of Love in Brooklyn

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    Oftentimes, love is romanticized as warm, sincere, kind, gentle, honest, and authentic. Love can have an infinite number of meanings depending on the context in which it’s used. A prominent theme throughout Brooklyn, written by Colm Tóibín and its film adaptation directed by John Crowley, is the recurrence of love, or lack thereof. Both the…