Simply one of the best books I've read on contemporary feminism and it's capacity to make change in the world at all levels. Lola Olufemi’s Feminism Interrupted seems also to be a book about the excision of non-white battles from feminism.

I found the chapters on reproductive justice, sex work, and transmisogyny to be most interesting because they haven’t been covered as much in the other feminist texts I’ve read.

A thoughtful and challenging review of the process by which the dominant/dominating patriarchal/capitalist structures seek to, and to a large degree have, subsumed radical opposition, incorporating dissenting narratives into the mainstream to perpetuate systems of oppression through liberal feminism, gender-critical 'feminism' and white West-centric feminism. White feminist neo-liberal politics focuses on the self as vehicle for self-improvement and personal gain at the expense of others.

The introduction failed to make me understand what the aim of the book was, but it soon became clear that the author would be making the case for feminism, going through some of the most common current divides in the movement. Perhaps the most powerful thing that can be done is sabotaging the law-making project and refusing to concede that abortion is unlawful. She exposes the yawning chasm between what constitutes mainstream feminist activism and the urgent needs of women of colour in maternity wards, single-mother households, abusive homes, hungry families – and those of disfranchised trans people and sex workers. It is often about putting personal views aside and thinking about those who are more often than not left out of mainstream feminist movements.The abortion referendum in Ireland, for example, leaned heavily on the cases of two women of colour, but there is little mobilisation for the rest of the maternal experience of women of colour. Some chapters I was cheering along, some were eye opening, some provoked disagreement, all were crystal clear in their message: feminism can be much bigger than you think. Olufemi argues that mainstream feminism is too often obsessed by personal choices: she refers, as others have, to the mind-numbing genre of articles that pose the question: “Can you be a feminist and … ?