Feminist Author And Activist bell hooks Passes Away At Age 69

The trailblazing feminist creator, critic, and activist bell hooks handed away on Wednesday at her house in Berea, Kentucky.

A press launch from her niece Ebony Motley confirmed that hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, had been in poor health and was surrounded by household and shut mates when she handed, Kentucky studies.

“The household of @bellhooks is gloomy to announce the passing of our sister, aunt, nice aunt and nice nice aunt. The creator, professor, critic and feminist made her transition early this am from her house, surrounded by household and mates.” Motley tweeted.

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Born in Hopkinsville, KY on September. 25, 1952, hooks gained recognition by way of her acclaimed literary works Ain’t I a Lady and All About Love. She attended Stanford College in California earlier than acquiring a grasp’s in English on the College of Wisconsin.

She revealed over 30 books over the course of her profession that eloquently coated matters surrounding race, feminism, capitalism, and intersectionality. Her signature pen identify got here from her maternal great-grandmother’s identify whom she admired and used lowercase letters to differentiate herself from her member of the family, The Guardian studies.

hooks’ revealed her first e book Ain’t I a Lady? in 1981. The e book turned a staple in feminist textual content and was named one of many twenty most influential ladies’s books within the final 20 years by Publishers Weekly in 1992.

Different books she revealed embody her 1984 launch Feminist Principle: From Margin to Middle, the 2000 e book All About Love: New Visions, and 20004’s  We Actual Cool: Black Males and Masculinity.

She had been instructing at Berea Faculty in Kentucky since 2004. The liberal arts faculty is thought for providing college students free tuition.

She held earlier instructing positions at Stanford College, Yale College, Oberlin Faculty in Ohio and The Metropolis Faculty of New York earlier than returning to Kentucky to show at Berea Faculty. Berea is the house of the bell hooks Institute, NPR studies.

“I need my work to be about therapeutic,” hooks stated whereas being inducted into the Kentucky Writers’ Corridor of Fame in 2018.

“I’m a lucky author as a result of day-after-day of my life virtually I get a letter, a cellphone name from somebody who tells me how my work has reworked their life.”