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. When bell hooks died on December 15, 2021, it was a gut-punch. While we’re on the topic of books, don’t forget the book swap coming up Saturday evening at The Corner Coffeehouse.A selection of bell hooks’ works: “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love,” “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center,” and “All About Love.” You can find all of Hoptown Chronicle’s stories about bell hooks here. And here’s a story by Alissa Keller that explores Gloria Watkins’ roots in Hopkinsville.

“All About Love” became a guiding principle for a group of volunteers who helped Motley plan the community’s celebration of bell hooks and her legacy. She also gifted 500 copies of “Bone Black,” hooks’ memoir of growing up in Hopkinsville. In Hopkinsville, the writer’s sister, Gwenda Motley, distributed 500 copies of “All About Love,” at a series of community events leading up to the bell hooks Celebration of Life on April 2 at the Alhambra Theatre. 15, 2021, and readers soon returned in large numbers to her 1999 book that challenges our understanding of love and inspires us to think of its potential for building community. That’s fitting for the hometown of the late Gloria Jean Watkins, the feminist author known by the pen name bell hooks. I don’t believe I’m overstating anything to observe that Hopkinsville surely has more copies per capita of “All About Love” than just about any community in America.

To be exact, “All About Love” has maintained its status on the NYT list for 56 weeks.Įven more remarkable, the book was published 23 years ago. A Hoptown Chronicle reader sent me the New York Times Best Sellers list this week because she wanted to share that a book by bell hooks has remained on the list of paperback nonfiction best sellers for more than a year.

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