Nearly a decade before she died in 2021, at 69, the activist and poet bell hooks gave an extensive radio interview with the novelist Silas House. They discussed the themes of hooks’s expansive body of ...

Press Play with Madeleine Brand bell hooks: Mainstream feminism excluded a lot of people The late feminist bell hooks pushed feminism beyond white, middle-class concerns to include poor women of color ...

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This striking, luminously illustrated compendium from artist Nabil collects Palestinian folklore from Jerusalem’s Old City. The tales, many of them first-person encounters with Continue reading » ...

Pioneering feminist scholar, author, professor, and critic bell hooks died at the age of 69 on Dec. 15 due to renal failure, according to The New York Times. Her family announced her death via Twitter ...

One cornerstone of bell hooks's work was that patriarchal ideals harm both men and women. In her 2004 book The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love, hooks points out how societal expectations ...

One of our nation's leading public intellectuals, Black feminist author and social activist bell hooks has inspired many generations of academics and non-academics alike, due not only to her ...