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bell hooks was an author and a scholar who published about a book a year. She was a poet, a mentor, a professor and an icon. I would cite her again and again when I wrote about hip-hop. I wanted my name to be published in lower case letters. I wanted to be prepared for battle when I wrote.
I thought of myself as part of her army. Her thought is ready to be integrated into our public and personal lives. Ain't I A Woman was a field guide to a liberation that centered on gender. Bell was producing work that provided tools like Audre Lorde. She didn't want to take on white supremacy without questioning patriarchy. She went deep and wide. She made arguments that pushed us past rhetoric and toward real freedom. She complicated theorists like Foucault and Laura Mulvey when she wrote about the white and male and capitalist gaze.
She was a poet and tracked the work of Black visual artists like painter Kerry James Marshall and photographers who were still largely unknown and struggling. She believed that the power of parallel universes in their art gave them more freedom. She wrote that using images allows us to connect ourselves to a recuperative, redemptive memory that allows us to construct radical identities.
She devoted all of her books to Black interior life and love and healing, the kind of work that feminist scholars avoid, because they risk not being taken seriously. She knew we would have to set cis patriarchal norms on fire to begin the healing of Black trauma. She was willing to burn it all down. To start again.
I received a letter from Reseda about five years ago. bell was learning about the work of bell hooks, who were being punished for committing violence because of their radical and logical arguments.
The bell passed away at the age of 69. mutual friends went to bell hooks bedside last week to say goodbye. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, former president of historic Spelman College, was being tended to by her sisters. I believe that she is lifted by this virtual procession toward her altar, where we lay love before her, forever grateful, forever changed by her, because she believed in ancestral communication that spans time and space.
bell hooks wasn't afraid to burn it all down and begin again
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