In memoriam: bell hooks

bell hooks (1952-2021) passed away yesterday at age 69. She was one of the leading Black feminist thinkers in the US. She was not just anti-sexist, but anti-racist and anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist too. Not in a knee-jerk way, but in a de-brainwashing way. Because in the US and beyond our minds have been colonized by the self-serving lies of rich White males. She leaves us with more than 30 books, but, as she said in “remembered rapture: the writer at work” (1999):

‘No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”… No woman has ever written enough.’

Requiescat in pace.

See also:

• bell hooks
  • bell hooks: the issue of self-love
  • bell hooks: Loving Blackness as Political Resistance
  • bell hooks: Talking Race and Racism
• A Room of One’s Own