She gave us tools for reading popular culture, relationships, history, politics and so much more. While social media didn’t always value hooks (we will talk about this more honestly one day – in fact, after her critique of Beyoncé and capitalism folks were quite vicious), I would venture to say there would be no hashtag or internet feminism without hooks’ insistence on plainly and brilliantly articulating Black feminist theory. I came to Black radical resistance through her. The Feminist Wire would not exist without hooks’ urging to “talk back”. I would not be a Black feminist if it were not for bell hooks. – V (formerly Eve Ensler) Tamura Lomax, PhD So I reached out to gather some memories from, as Stephanie Troutman says, “the beloved community bell helped to create”.
Bell once wrote that “one of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone”.
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