What do you make of Bell Hooks' ideas? Especially her notion that feminism needs to shift away "from the original focus [on] victimization, and towards harboring understanding, appreciation, and tolerance for all genders and sexes so that all are in control of their own destinies, uncontrolled by patriarchal, capitalist tyrants."
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We tend to print a lot of Zines with her ideas, especially on race, class, sexism, and the failings of the educational system. I'm quite biased in favor of her.
As an educator, I fully embrace her methodologies in being engaged and having an expansive and diverse set of tools to reach an audience and to remain as part of the audience as those one is speaking to.
She's a spitfire, in the best way possible. I like to read her works, since they are dynamic and colorful. She doesn't shy away from revealing the detrimental impact that exploitation creates.
Funny, how once Beyonce did her MTV awards show performance, where she unapologetically showed she is a feminist, most folks in these parts were asking, "Okay, cool...now what does Bell Hooks have to say about it?"
That speaks volumes about her influence in intersectionality and the use of media in feminist messages to the public.
I'd recommend her books and her essays to anyone, personally. She helps bring a passion to my teachings as a woman to young and teenaged girls, as well as to young women in my classes.
