The anthology includes different accounts from 32 black women of feminist ideology who come from a variety of different areas, cultures, and classes.

"[1] Black feminism stems from the idea that women's experiences are intersectional and a reflection of race, sexism, gender oppression, and class.

In the preface, Smith acknowledges black lesbians and their activity within The Ad Hoc Committee Archived 2018-04-26 at the Wayback Machine "for an open process, the grass-roots groups that have successfully questioned the undemocratic... tactics of the proposed gay millennium march in Washington D.C in 2000."

Many of the organizations and marches that came to be before and after the publication of Home Girls are centralized around issues of racial inequality and gender oppression Archived 2018-06-17 at the Wayback Machine.

[11] In order to achieve this goal, many activists suggest becoming more knowledgeable about intersectional feminism and its effects on how black women experience oppression and discrimination.

As the article states: "While many of the book's poems strike me as self-indulgent and forced, the majority of the selections are both finely honed and provocative.

It consciously broaches issues which have heretofore been given only a faint hearing and thus challenges the reader to rethink not only the past and present but also the future.