Bell hooks

✶September 25, 1952

†December 15, 2021

3 candles burning, 14 lit in all

About their life

Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American philosopher, educator, author, and social critic; she was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College in Kentucky. Professor hooks wrote about race, feminism, and social class. Her work explored the intersections of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she described as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. Her work served as foundational to the modern idea of intersectionality. She published numerous scholarly articles and nearly 40 books, in styles ranging from essays and poetry to children's literature, with a body of work that addressed love, gender, art, history, sexuality, and mass media.

American author and activist (1952–2021)

☆ Follow

Biography from the article Bell hooks on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.