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Kovie Biakolo: It was bell hooks who taught me how to ‘talk back’

bell hooks understood that voice and language are how marginalized people humanize themselves to themselves.

(Monica Almeida | The New York Times) The author bell hooks at her apartment in Manhattan on Sept. 13, 1995. hooks, whose incisive, wide-ranging writing on gender and race helped push feminism beyond its white, middle-class worldview to include the voices of Black and working-class women, died on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, at her home in Berea, Ky. She was 69.

(Monica Almeida | The New York Times) The author bell hooks at her apartment in Manhattan on Sept. 13, 1995. hooks, whose incisive, wide-ranging writing on gender and race helped push feminism beyond its white, middle-class worldview to include the voices of Black and working-class women, died on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, at her home in Berea, Ky. She was 69.

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By Kovie Biakolo | For The New York Times