![]() ![]() We join with anti-racist feminists around the globe as we mourn the loss of bell hooks as a visionary and touchstone. Some of us had the joy of seeing her give presentations at UCSB, and others benefitted from her mentorship at different universities. We teach bell hooks in our Feminist Studies courses. The groundbreaking feminist critic, poet, and intellectual on love, feminism, patriarchy, white supremacy, forgiveness and the power of art. and Professor at Colgage University Meika Loe, organized a roundtable at the National Women’s Studies Association conference to discuss hooks’ classic Teaching to Transgress and Becky Thompson’s Teaching with Tenderness. bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins Septem December 15, 2021), was an American university professor specializing in social criticism focused on groups distinguished. In November 2021, UCSB graduate students Anna Wald, AP Pierce and Alex Mireles and Chair Laury Oaks, along with UCSB Sociology/Feminist Studies Ph.D. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem. She was the author of many books, including Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, Teaching to Transgress, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, Killing Rage, and All About Love: New Visions. She was a bright light in dark times, an inspiration and a life-force for me and for untold others.I’m so sad to lose her. The Department of Feminist Studies recognizes and honors the life, activism, and Black feminist scholarship of bell hooks. bell hooks died yesterday at her home in Kentucky. ![]() She died on Wednesday, December 15, at her Kentucky home at the age of 69. She was inducted into the Kentucky Writers' Hall of Fame in 2018. ![]() Feminist scholars and activists around the world have lost a central presence and Black feminist voice in bell hooks. From 2004, hooks worked as a teacher at Berea College and in 2010 the school opened the bell hooks Institute at Berea College. ![]()
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