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Author: Zakiya Luna

Zakiya Luna is a dean’s distinguished professorial scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, author of Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice and co-editor of Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis.
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“Other Mother” of a Generation: On bell hooks and Living Black Feminism

Zakiya Luna
bell hooks

For many Black women, bell hooks was part of a community of truth-telling “other mothers”—women who parent children who are not their own. 

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