Although her childhood in the South in a small agricultural city called Hopkinsville exposed her to vicious examples of white supremacy, her tight-knit Black community there showed her the possibility of resistance from the margins, of finding community among the oppressed, and drawing power from those connections. In her work she returned frequently to these themes.
bell hooks, the influential writer, feminist, poet and cultural critic who popularized intersectionality with works such as “Ain’t I a Woman,” “All About Love,” “Bone Black,” “Feminist Theory” and “Communion:
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