'Her words connect us and unite us, even when we profoundly disagree.'
bell hooks gave us language that literally saved our lives by helping to articulate the oppressions we faced as women, as Black people.
Perhaps right-wing conservatives chose to weaponize “critical race theory” because the bell-hooksian term “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy” would have been too on-the-nose even for them. And hooks was already “calling a thing a thing” before Iyanla Vanzant popularized the saying,Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism.
And teaching bell hooks as a professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies allowed me to pass on the same tools to my students. Of course, the response is usually the same, class to class, year to year. After struggling with the different academic feminist works assigned, students collectively breathe a sigh of relief and express immediate understanding and connection when they read bell hooks. Her words connect us and unite us, even when we profoundly disagree.
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