![]() ![]() ![]() bell hooks’ nuanced definition of love transformed the way I perceived every relationship and interaction, but at times, the book fell short with regards to intersectionality.īell hooks, known by friends and family as Gloria Jean Watkins, was a trailblazing American scholar and activist who explored the overlaps of love, race, class, gender, sexuality, media, and feminism in her writings. But post-”All About Love,” it was like everything I had known before shifted: love now became an intersection of racism, feminism, capitalism, patriarchy, and family. Before reading, I had always believed that love was something like a myth: unobtainable and only possible in movies, books, and TV. As a teenage girl about to enter the next chapter of her life, I was entranced by the question hooks promised to answer in her book: “What is love?”. The summer before I began my freshman year at UCLA, I picked up a copy of “All About Love: New Visions” by bell hooks at my local bookstore after briefly skimming the back cover. Image description: A photo of the cover of All About Love (red with black text). ![]()
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