Writing from the Darkness – Bell Hooks – Flashcards

Gloria Jean Watkins (born September 25, 1952), better known by her pen name Bell Hooks is an American author, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is derived from that of her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. The focus of hooks's writing has been the intersectionality of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she describes as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. She has published over 30 books and numerous scholarly articles, appeared in documentary films, and participated in public lectures. Primarily through a postmodern perspective, she has addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media, and feminism.

Bell Hooks family was used to being open and decided that writing was more of an open activity. Literary was not valued and for her to engage in writing and it was considered bad.

Bell doesn't believe that safe writing is for the public. Bell believes that you can write without giving much away.

Bell wanted to destroy her diaries because they documented personal things.