
Memorial notice for bell hooks in the Daily Nous, 2021.For bell hooks, beloved scholar, remembrance article for the Gay City News by Nicholas Boston, 2021.
We’ll Never Be Done Learning From bell hooks, article for The Cut by Bindu Bansinath, 2021. Remembering bell hooks & Her Critique of “Imperialist White Supremacist Heteropatriarchy” video report by Democracy Now, 2021. Tributes flow for ‘giant, no nonsense’ feminist author, educator, activist and poet bell hooks, ABC News (Australia), 2021. To help contextualise the broader impact of these and other ideas within bell hooks’ 40+ books and other writings, I’ve included a selection of additional resources, sorted by type:īut first, a sample of memorials to honour the range and depth of appreciation for bell hooks’ contributions to social justice movements: Practising love, a verb, is a pathway to justice. Of these, my reflection focuses on her contributions to three concepts that have been influential in social justice movements: Many of the ideas articulated by bell hooks have resonated widely. To situate those ideas, bell hooks drew on academic scholarship and popular culture as well as her relevant personal perspectives: especially as a Black woman living in America as an educator and activist and as the first in her family to gain a university education. Presentations, interviews, & conversationsīell hooks (1952-2021) chose this name, and styled it in lower-case, in an effort to focus attention on the substantive ideas within her writing, rather than her identity as an isolated individual. Resource collections featuring bell hooks. Contextualising bell hooks’ contributions. Practising love, as a verb, is a pathway to justice. Exploring bell hooks’ contributions to three social justice concepts.