For bell hooks

What has been so profoundly stirring about the tributes to the black feminist cultural critic and scholar bell hooks, is the breadth of the lives that her words and teaching touched. Each tribute, a hand held to the heart, or perhaps a wave, across generations, distance and experience. hooks’s talks, essays and books confirm her renowned skill as a formidable storyteller and bricoleur; the singular way she had of moving with agility between social theory, activism, community struggles and what is more hidden, not least of all the vitality of love as a political force and a necessity for our individual flourishing. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mediadiversified.org/2021/12/16/for-bell-hooks/