bell hooks left more of herself to all of us than any Black woman could ever owe to anybody. ProfessorCrunk writes
Photo: Monica Almeida/The New York Times/Redux Last week, someone stole my purse. I briefly left my car unlocked while I ran into an eatery for takeout, and when I got back inside, instinctively I reached for my bag. It was not there. I looked everywhere for it. Drove all over town, hoping I had merely left it somewhere, to be easily retrieved. It was gone. I did not see the thief, but I knew that something had been taken.
I did not personally know bell hooks. We had many people in common. I know she read a little of my work; I read and revered hers. I responded to the barrage of text messages informing me over and over again that she is gone by going into my makeshift home office and reaching for every single one of her books on my library shelves. Talking Back, Communion, Yearning, Killing Rage. I gathered them around me, remembering at least one story attached to each book, one experience.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center is one of those books with a sense memory attached to it. Viscerally, I remember loving that book as a newly minted feminist, and reaming a white girl in a graduate seminar who dared to suggest that “surely bell hooks knew better,” when she had chosen not to include footnotes in many of her books of essays.
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