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Nyakallo Maleke and the gentle radicalism of drawing as care

A tender meditation on care, memory and materiality, this artist’s work invites us to slow down and feel the soul

‘Dominator culture’, bell hooks wrote,  ‘has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity’. Photo: Margaret Thomas/The The Washington Post/Getty Images

Remembering bell hooks: There is no way to be ‘everybody’

Radical feminist bell hooks taught us to sit with perturbation and vulnerability as we revel in difference

An extract from bell hooks’s ‘Outlaw Culture’: Seduced by violence no more

In this extract from bell hooks’s book ‘Outlaw Culture’, (chapter title above) she expounds on women’s role in confronting rape culture

Reading bell hooks: A selection of readings that highlight her intellectual labour

Mapule Mohulatsi selects a few essential titles from her oeuvre, interviews and publications about her

bell hooks’ books, articles and quotes emphasised our need to use love in the fight against the complex issues which affected Black women, queer and trans communities. (Photo: Karjean Levine/Getty)

bell hooks and the return to radical love

bell hooks’ intentional accessibility shows how feminist theory can be used against patriarchy

Epitome of ethics: Author and cultural critic bell hooks insisted that care, love and spirituality were the core of black feminist practice and freedom. Photo: Karjean Levine/Getty Images

A spirit guide to ethical black feminist thinking and praxis

bell hooks’s refusal to ‘get in formation’ foregrounded healing as the foundation to a communal liberatory agenda

Mme MaMotaung at Chicken farm informal settlement in 1985. (Santu Mofokeng Foundation)
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An ‘aesthetic inheritance’: ugogo the [visual] griot

Refiguring ugogo as a critical figure in the making of Black [visual] archives

We Wanted a Revolution – Black Radical Women, 1965-85 (Duke University Press)

The List: A peek at the Stevenson library

Stevenson gallery staff took to Instagram to share a small selection of literature guiding their “respective journeys towards listening, learning and confronting bias”

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A ghostbusting care package

A multimedia care package of reading material, series, movies and music to indulge in if you’re ghosted

The various components of the books value chain — spanning writers, publishers, printers, booksellers and distributors — are having to get by using the digital sphere.

What makes a good bookstore?

A trip to find the best shops for African literature raised the question of what makes a bookstore worth visiting.

The Lists: ‘The Thing Around Your Neck’, MF Doom and Anthony and the Johnsons

​This week’s reading and listening recommendations are from Milisuthando Bongela, Tarryn Crossman and Sisonke Msimang.