Saying farewell to the unmatched, bell hooks
February 2, 2022News0 Comments
“True resistance begins with people confronting pain…and wanting to do something to change it.”—bell hooks
bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, was an innovative author, activist, and educator; focusing on the ways in which race, gender, economics and politics were interrelated.
hooks rejected the isolation derived from the separation of civil rights, economics, and feminism into individual fields; believing in the critical community and connectivity for which economic inequity, sexism, and racism reinforced one another.
hooks began a fruitful career in the 1970’s, being vastly impacted by the works of Sojourner Truth, James Baldwin and Martin Luther King Jr. She has compiled and written a plethora of books that have guided academic and popular discourse alike. Most notable from hooks is 1999’s All about Love: New Visions.
“Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love,” she wrote in All about Love: New Visions.
Fun fact! bell hooks derived her pen name from her maternal great-grandmother; an ode for the ages.