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-Born Gloria Jean Watkins in Kentucky in 1952
-Pen name: bell hooks (stylized in lower case)
-Feminist author, professor, and activist
-Died in 2021

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Feminism, anti-racism, and class are all intersecting issues.

If there is no love their is no equality.

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“When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another’s spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abuse cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposite of nurturance and care.” - bell hooks

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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

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One of her most popular works on Black women's experience facing misogyny and racism from slavery to current day. As well as the critique of white feminism for excluding and decentering Black women and their contributions to feminism.

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“The idealized woman becomes property, symbol, and ornament; she is stripped of her essential human qualities. The devalued woman becomes a different kind of object; she is the spittoon in which men release their negative anti-woman feelings.”

My take on this is that the idealized woman is the white woman while the devalued woman is the Black woman. They both experience misogyny but in different ways because of the racism Black women also experience.

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What has the feminist movement done right in regards to intersectionality? In what ways can it improve?

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“Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.” - bell hooks

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“Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women, in particular, have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful.” - bell hooks

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https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-quotes/love-resistance-hope-25-quotes-by-bell-hooks/
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/17/1064871075/bell-hooks-groundbreaking-feminist-legacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks