Iconoclast. Avant-garde Black feminist scholar. Unflinching pop culture critic. The inimitable Gloria Jean Watkins – best known by her pen name ‘bell hooks’ – died one year ago. To mark the anniversary, Jan Asante revisits her landmark Reel to Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies and other irresistible offerings.
In her new photographs made in California and Mexico, Stone embodies a practice of Black critical looking and shows the power of seeing and being seen.