bell hooks, the renowned author and social activist, died on Wednesday at her home in Berea, Ky., after an illness. She was 69. Berea College, where hooks founded the bell hooks Institute, confirmed ...

When bell hooks died on Dec. 15, 2021, it was a gut-punch. There was no time when hooks’ extraordinary writing and feminist and lesbian theorizing was not part of the queer community. There was no ...

Author bell hooks has died at the age of 69, her family and publisher said in a statement Wednesday. Born Gloria Jean Watkins, hooks was best known for her writing on Black identity, feminism and ...

bell hooks, the influential writer, feminist, poet and cultural critic who popularized intersectionality with works such as “Ain’t I a Woman,” “All About Love,” “Bone Black,” “Feminist Theory” and ...

We look at the life and legacy of trailblazing Black feminist scholar and activist bell hooks, who died at the age of 69 on Wednesday. We speak with her longtime colleague Beverly Guy-Sheftall, ...

For so many thinkers, hooks afforded her readers the opportunity to rethink how marginalization, tenderness and relationships between human beings have been tragically misunderstood and gone about in ...

In a Feb. 20, 2020 interview with Time, Kimberlé Crenshaw said the following about intersectionality, a term she coined over 30 years prior: “It’s basically a lens, a prism, for seeing the way in ...