“Poverty is an eternal apocalypse,” says writer and activist Mikki Kendall. “Everyone who can’t afford to survive is going through their own personal apocalypse.” She joins Ali on the show today to discuss her new book, Hood Feminism, along with a number of social and personal topics ranging from access to basic essentials and hoarding during the pandemic to leaving abusive relationships.

Mikki Kendall is a Chicago-based writer, activist, and cultural critic. She is the author of Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists (Ten Speed Press, 2019) and Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot (Viking, 2020).