The Work and Legacy of bell hooks w/ Imani Perry & Darnell Moore

The Laverne Cox Show

Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts

Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Laverne and bell hooks’ friends explore the legacy and work of the revolutionary Black feminist intellectual who shifted Laverne’s molecules.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
0:05.8	Oh yeah.
0:06.6	Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,
0:15.3	autobiographies, true crime, and more.
0:19.3	Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their flight.
0:23.4	Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible.
0:25.8	No way.
0:26.4	Download the Amazon Music app now to start listening.
0:29.2	Terms apply.
0:30.9	Welcome to the Laverne Cox Show, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership with IHeart Radio.
0:40.6	You know, I repeat this everywhere I go.
0:43.1	We're really clear and been sort of trained to name the feet that are situated on our nets.
0:48.8	But we've not really done the work of naming the nets that our feet are situated on.
0:54.2	And after having done that, taking your feet off, that I owe to Bell Hooks.
1:00.4	Mm-hmm.
1:05.3	Welcome to the Laverne Cox Show.
1:12.0	I'm Laverne Cox.
1:14.5	Language is also a place of struggle.
1:17.7	It's the beginning of my favorite quote from Bell Hooks.
1:21.5	It's from her 1991 book, Yearning.
1:24.6	And I am struggling with finding the language right now to express what Bell Hooks means to me and how important it is for me to have this conversation and to continue since Bell Hooks has passed away.
1:42.3	Bell Hooks died in December of 2021.
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