Remembering the life and work of the writer, scholar, and activist bell hooks
Photo: Karjean Levine/Getty Images The writer, scholar, and activist bell hooks, known for her influential work on Black feminism, died on December 15 at 69. She died surrounded by family and friends at her home in Berea, Kentucky, after an illness, according to a press release published by her niece, Ebony Motley. hooks was born Gloria Jean Watkins in Christian County, Kentucky, where she grew up before leaving to attend Stanford University.
hooks wrote over 40 books throughout her nearly five-decade career, including poetry and children’s literature alongside theory and criticism. Her bibliography also includes Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life with Cornel West, Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom, Belonging: A Culture of Place, and All About Love.
Many writers and intellectuals influenced by hooks paid tribute on social media following news of her death. “She was an intellectual giant, spiritual genius & freest of persons!” tweeted West, alongside photos with hooks. “Her loss is incalculable,” author Roxane Gay tweeted. The writer Tressie McMillan Cottom tweeted a quote from Feminist Theory, writing, “The entirety of my intellectual and creative project is this.
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