I would love to have a partner, but I don't think my life is less meaningful. In an interview for Shondaland in 2017, hooks told Abigail Bereola, "I don't have a partner. She writes so much of loveso compellingly of emotional and romantic commitment and what it meansthat it was stunning when hooks revealed she spent the last two decades of her life unpartnered and celibate. The extraordinary breadth of hooks' writing and the thematic structures of her books, essays and poetry all build on each other. Intersectionality describes and explores how race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and class might intersect with one another and overlap. Crenshaw) about it exhaustively and, as Audre Lorde would say, deliberately. Intersectionality has become a political and cultural buzzword recently, yet few have read the intersectional essays of hooks or Kimberlé Crenshaw, who invented that concept and wrote (and continues to write, in the case of Dr. There was no time when the community imagined that hooks' voice would not always be in the forefront of our collective consciousness on intersectionality and queer theory and praxis. There was no time when bell hooks' extraordinary writing and feminist and lesbian theorizing was not part of the queer community. This article shared 1132 times since Sat Oct 22, 2022
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