bell hooks—scholar, writer, activist and feminist legend—died this morning at her home in Kentucky. In this interview from our Spring 2011 issue, she shares her bold takes on the past, present and future of feminism, and how to live it—not just think it.
.: I noticed that you’ve appeared on Twitter. Is social media a useful tool to reach across generations?I’ve been a person who doesn’t use the Internet or have a cell phone, and it’s because of young feminists, men and women, because of their demand for my work, that I’ve come more into technology. All media can be used to educate for critical consciousness. A lot of people don’t realize that before his death, Martin Luther King Jr.
In fact, I was thinking about doing a short book about this whole journey, going around the country and talking to people about love. So many bell hooks’s readers [were] upset that I was writing about love—it was like “bell’s gone soft,” and I kept thinking, ‘It’s not about going soft at all; it’s about knowing what can save our planet. Which is people connecting, communicating, showing loving-kindness.
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