For readers of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Cherríe Moraga—Ethical Feminism is a searing collection of essays that exposes the ethical voids within mainstream feminism and reclaims power, truth, and voice for women of color.

In this bold, unflinching, and deeply personal work, Jules Coppola—a queer, multiracial adoptee and radical feminist of color—delivers a fearless indictment of systemic oppression while calling for a new feminist ethic rooted in racial equity, intersectional truth-telling, and collective liberation.

At the heart of Ethical Feminism lies a searing critique: white-centered feminism has too often failed to deliver real justice for the very communities it claims to support. Through powerful autobiographical essays and incisive cultural analysis, Coppola illuminates how patriarchy, racism, white feminism, capitalism, nationalism, and moral hypocrisy continue to conspire against women of color, queer folks, and the most marginalized among us.

Each chapter challenges readers to examine the false promises of performative allyship, the deep wounds of generational trauma, and the enduring violence of white supremacy masquerading as “progress.” With lyrical prose reminiscent of Audre Lorde and bell hooks—and a fierce intellectual clarity that echoes Angela Davis—Coppola shows us what ethical, intersectional feminism must look like if it is to matter at all.

• Intersectional Feminism Reimagined: Ethical Feminism dismantles the myth that equality can be achieved through colorblind liberalism. It advocates instead for a feminism that centers Black and Brown voices, immigrant lives, trans experience, and economic justice.

• The Myth of the White Ally: Drawing on personal experiences and historic movements, Coppola explores how “allies” often become the new colonizers—centering themselves while exploiting and erasing the voices of those most harmed.

• Radical Honesty and Lived Experience: From growing up as a multiracial child in white spaces, to confronting systemic racism in academia, psychiatry, and the foster care system, these essays are at once deeply vulnerable and unapologetically defiant.

• Ancestral Wisdom and Revolutionary Spirit: Ethical Feminism pays homage to those who came before—Audre Lorde, Malcolm X, Gloria Anzaldúa, James Baldwin, and others—while forging a new blueprint for collective resistance and personal healing.

• Cultural Critique with Teeth: This is not feminism lite. Coppola critiques everything from whitewashed education to exploitative foster care, from false savior narratives to the carceral system’s treatment of sex-trafficked youth.

• Empowerment Without Apology: For queer women, Black and Brown feminists, survivors of violence, adoptees, and those who live at the intersection of multiple identities, this book offers validation, empowerment, and a voice of unrelenting truth.