![]() ![]() ![]() Her influence is vast and her death leaves a painful void for those who knew and loved her. Her writings spanned the spectrum from capitalism and imperialism, to education, masculinity, beauty and love. Borrowing her nom de plume from her outspoken great-grandmother, hooks went on to become one of the foremost feminist intellectuals and radical writers of her time. She eventually went to Stanford University on scholarship and worked as a telephone operator to cover her other expenses. She was the daughter of working-class parents born in a small town in the Jim Crow South. ![]() ![]() I will miss her words and her presence in our lives.īell hooks (AKA Gloria Jean Watkins), feminist writer, radical thinker and teacher, died on Wednesday, 15 December at the age of 69, at her home in Berea, Kentucky. For the next three-plus decades we were colleagues, intellectual comrades and interlocutors who sometimes disagreed, but shared a bond of mutual respect and solidarity. I first met bell hooks in the late 1980s at a feminist conference where I, and a slew of other graduate students, slept on the floor of her hotel suite because the meeting was overbooked. ![]()
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