A review by lindick
The Crunk Feminist Collection by Susana M. Morris, Robin M. Boylorn, Brittney C. Cooper

4.0

Absolutely worth reading. This book is dense (it took me over 2 months to read!), sometimes difficult, and always very smart, but also sometimes very funny and sweet. It felt like talking to friends, but super smart feminist friends with very strong opinions who are kicking ass in academia.

My only complaints are: I don't have a problem with them essentially publishing a collection of previously-written blog posts as a book -- they never claimed it was anything else than a collection of the work they did for free for years. And they did a good job sorting the posts by theme and wrote new intros to each chapter that tied them together very nicely. I do wish they had listed dates for the original posts, though? Maybe just at the bottom, like "originally posted on CFC October 2013." Because they're all in the present tense but then refer to things that happened at very different times (the posts cover from 2010-2015, I believe), so it could get confusing to not have that context. Also, and again I know they were originally blog posts, but they are academics, so I wish they'd added endnotes. It's mostly opinions/feminist analysis, but there are some facts and statistics, which I assume were originally hyperlinked. It's not that I don't trust their claims, but there were some things they mentioned in passing that I'd have loved to read more about, and seeing sources for them would have been helpful.