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‘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
BELL HOOKS

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

  • Mapule Mohulatsi
3 min read
BELL HOOKS

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

  • bell hooks
4 min read
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
ACADEMIA

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

  • Moshibudi Motimele
9 min read