![]() Hooks' family did not give a cause of death, but Berea College in Kentucky, where she had taught since 2004, said in a statement she had died "after an extended illness."Īwarded numerous accolades throughout her career, hooks earned a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1983, after a BA from Stanford, and was inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame in 2018.Ī celebrated Black thinker, her works became required reading on many a university course, gaining new readership amid the Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice. Rest in our love."įellow renowned author Roxane Gay, who wrote "Bad Feminist," said the loss of hooks was "incalculable." Kendi tweeted hooks' words on "the healing power of redemptive love" to his tens of thousands of followers and said her death "hurts, deeply." Historian and best-selling author of "How to Be an Antiracist" Ibram X. Her words on love were the focus of the many tributes that poured in on social media after her passing. "We can love in a deep and profound way that transforms the political world in which we live." "I'm talking about a love that is transformative, that challenges us in both our private and our civic lives," she told NPR in 2000. She went on to publish some 40 works, including poetry, children's fiction, memoir and literary criticism, delving into not only feminism, racism and other social justice issues, but love - romantic and beyond. She gained acclaim in 1981 for "Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism," in which she examined the impact of sexism and racism on Black women, as well as racism within feminism, arguing for a more inclusive movement. I read her book The Will To Change and it opened my eyes about relationships, patriarchy, and race in very valuable ways. ![]() ![]() Using the lower-case pen name bell hooks, in honor of her great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks, she published her first book of poems "And There We Wept" in 1978. I am sad to hear of the passing of bell hooks. ![]()
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