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bell hooks (1952–2021) was the pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins, MA, PhD, an American professor, social activist, feminist, author, and cultural critic. Her writing focused on the intersectionality of capitalism, gender, and race and their combined ability to perpetuate systemic institutions of oppression and injustice.

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bell hooks and john a. powell: Belonging Through Connection

Othering & Belonging Conference, 2015

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FindCenter Quotes ImageContrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

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Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

In Rock My Soul, world-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing African Americans: a collective wounded self-esteem that has prevailed from slavery to the present day.

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Penis Passion

bell hooks argues that our erotic lives are enhanced when men and women can celebrate the penis in ways that don’t uphold macho stereotypes.

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bell hooks & Gloria Steinem at Eugene Lang College

Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist. She travels in this and other countries as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageTo love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

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Communion: The Female Search for Love

Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every female to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free.

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Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh

bell hooks meets with Thich Nhat Hanh to ask: How do we build a community of love?

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A Public Dialogue Between bell hooks and Cornel West

Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He has taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard and the University of Paris. He has written 19 books and edited 13 books.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this ‘In order to love you, I must make you something else.

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