{"id":1359,"date":"2022-02-02T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:53:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T19:53:36","slug":"saying-farewell-to-the-unmatched-bell-hooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/saying-farewell-to-the-unmatched-bell-hooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying farewell to the unmatched, bell hooks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"930\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/05\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/05\/image-2.png 930w, https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/05\/image-2-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/05\/image-2-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/05\/image-2-183x110.png 183w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTrue resistance begins with people confronting pain\u2026and wanting to do something to change it.\u201d\u2014bell hooks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>hooks began a fruitful career in the 1970\u2019s, 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\u2019s\u00a0<em>All about Love: New Visions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/05\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1362\" style=\"width:838px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/05\/image-1.png 240w, https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/05\/image-1-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/05\/image-1-79x110.png 79w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;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,\u201d&nbsp;she wrote in&nbsp;<em>All about Love: New Visions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fun fact! bell hooks derived her pen name from her maternal great-grandmother; an ode for the ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/entertainment\/bell-hooks-death-1.6286981?fbclid=IwAR1d5fEfrLu3OD0kuMeCm-N6uXnUUfgaLvOQNzX_Pz487fHxUBnCFtEEHlQ\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/entertainment\/bell-hooks-death-1.6286981?fbclid=IwAR1d5fEfrLu3OD0kuMeCm-N6uXnUUfgaLvOQNzX_Pz487fHxUBnCFtEEHlQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrue resistance begins with people confronting pain\u2026and wanting to do something to change it.\u201d\u2014bell hooks bell hooks, born Gloria Jean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}