bell hooks obituary
Trailblazing writer, activist and cultural theorist who made a pivotal contribution to Black feminist thought
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Trailblazing writer, activist and cultural theorist who made a pivotal contribution to Black feminist thought
Pathbreaking Black feminist bell hooks dies at 69
Although her childhood in the South — in a small agricultural city called Hopkinsville — exposed her to vicious examples of white supremacy, her tight-knit Black community there showed her the possibility of resistance from the margins, of finding community among the oppressed, and drawing power from those connections. In her work she returned frequently to these themes.
Family, friends, and fellow writers have paid tribute to Gloria Jean Watkins and her radical writing on intersectional feminism, race, love, masculinity, and more
One of the twentieth century’s greatest cultural critics, author and activist bell hooks, has died aged 69.