The Life-Changing Curiosity of bell hooks

“To build a mass-based feminist movement, we need to have a liberatory ideology that can be shared with everyone,” bell hooks wrote in her groundbreaking 1984 book, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. hooks, who passed away on December 15 at the age of 69 in her home state of Kentucky, took to task the decades-long inability of the feminist establishment to consider the experiences of marginalized women. “Revolutionary ideology can be created only if the experiences of people on the margin who suffer sexist oppression and other forms of group oppression are understood, addressed, and incorporated,” she wrote. I… Read Full Article