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bell hooks, a.k.a. Gloria Jean Watkins

Gloria Jean Watkins (born September 25, 1952), better known by her pen name bell hooks,^[1] is an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is borrowed from her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks.^[2]

The focus of hooks' writing has been the intersectionality of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she describes as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. She has published over 30 books and numerous scholarly articles, appeared in documentary films, and participated in public lectures. She has addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media, and feminism.^[3] In 2014, she founded the bell hooks Institute at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.^[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks

Born: September 25, 1952 
Hopkinsville, Kentucky 
African American activist, educator, and writer

Writer, professor, and social critic, bell hooks is undeniably one of the most successful "cross-over" academics of the late twentieth century. Her books look at the function of race and gender in today's culture.

https://www.notablebiographies.com/He-Ho/Hooks-Bell.html#ixzz5jPhANR7D

the life and work of acclaimed intellectual, feminist theorist, cultural critic, artist, and writer bell hooks. The Institute strives to promote the cause of ending domination through understanding the ways systems of exploitation and oppression intersect through critical thinking, teaching, events, and conversation. 
http://www.bellhooksinstitute.com

I will not have my life narrowed down. 

I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or 

to someone else's ignorance.

bell hooks, American author and activist

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