Remembering Prolific Writer, Feminist bell hooks

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🗓️ 18 December 2021

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In her celebrated 1999 essay collection "Remembered Rapture" — about the life and craft of a writer — feminist author and educator bell hooks insisted that "[n]o Black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much'.... No woman has ever written enough.” hooks, who passed away Wednesday at age 69, published more than 30 books, including the noted works “Ain’t I A Woman?”, “All About Love,” “Sisters of the Yam” and “Teaching to Transgress.” Her writing was foundational in shaping Black feminist thought and widening the feminist worldview beyond white, middle class identity. From her pointed critiques of the “imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarch” to her poignant thoughts on love and healing, we'll reflect on hooks' life and work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.6	Bell Hooks, the feminist author, theorist and culture critic, died Wednesday at her home in Bruea, Kentucky.
1:19.6	She was 69 years old. Before she was Bell Hooks, a guiding light for feminist thinkers, writers, and beyond.
1:26.6	She was Gloria Jean Watkins, born in 1952 feminist thinkers, writers, and beyond. She was Gloria
1:27.8	Jean Watkins, born in 1952, the daughter of a postal worker and homemaker in small, segregated
1:34.3	Hopkinsville, Kentucky. While an undergraduate at Stanford, Hooks began writing her foundational
1:39.3	work on black feminism, Ain't I a Woman, and published it in 1981 as she was earning her
1:44.8	doctorate in literature from UC Santa Cruz. Hooks wrote her name in all
1:49.1	lowercase letters to emphasize the substance of her writing and not the
1:53.0	writer. Today we remember both and we're joined by Dr. Beverly Guy
1:59.1	Schefftall, president of the Women's Center at Spelman College,
2:02.6	Professor of Women's Studies, and Founding Director of the Women's Research and Resource Center at Spelman College.
2:07.6	Thanks so much for joining us, Dr. Guy Schaftall.
2:10.6	Thank you for having me.
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