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An Ode to bell hooks: “You Have Left Us a Gift”
“sista bell hooks,
to you,
we owe
an enormous debt
that can never really
be repaid
in full.”
“No need to cry useless tears for you.
Instead, let us pick up our pens
& write our way
to liberation and freedom.”
bell hooks: The Black Feminist Guide That Literally Saved Our Lives
bell hooks’s death is a reminder that the work continues, and that it is even more imperative to continue resisting systemic oppressions, to carve a path to liberation.
Her signed message to me—”Janell! To loving blackness –bell hooks”—still resonates with me because I have approached my critiques through this radical positioning of “loving blackness” and doing so as resistance to “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.”
bell hooks: The Iconoclastic Writer and Activist Who Reminded Us ‘Feminism Is for Everybody’ (Spring 2011)
We were devastated to hear bell hooks—scholar, writer, activist and feminist legend—died on Wednesday, Dec. 15, at her home. She was 69.
In this beloved interview from the Spring 2011 issue of Ms. between hooks and Jennifer D. Williams, hooks frankly shares her bold takes on the past, present and future of feminism, and how to *live* it—not just think it.
“On one hand we’re being told that feminism failed, but if it failed why do people want to go back and take away some basic successes of the movement?”
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: Sweden and Honduras Both Get Their First Female Heads of State
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: women’s social citizenship must be embraced; Sweden’s first woman prime minister is back in office; Honduras just elected a woman president for the first time; how gender proportionality principle can achieve gender balance in the corporate sector; the status of women in the media in 2021; the growing reach of gender lens investing; and more.
Remembering Dorothea Buck—Who Forced Psychiatry To Confront Its Deadly History
After being sterilized in Nazi facilities, Dorothea Buck dedicated her life to being a psychiatric activist.
“As long as we talk to each other,” she said again and again until the end of her life, “we don’t kill each other.”
Rest in Power: Kamla Bhasin, Feminist Icon of India
Kamla Bhasin, an early leader of the women’s movement in India, died in New Delhi on Sept. 25 at the age of 75. Bhasin played an integral role in the second wave of feminism and was a prominent voice in the women’s movement in India and other South Asian countries from the 1970s to the present. Her impact will live on for years in the songs, poems, art and music of the thousands of people that she inspired across South Asia.
Rest in Power: Penny Harrington, Criminal Justice Reformer and the First Woman to Lead a Police Department in a Major U.S. City
Penny Harrington—the chief of the Portland, Oregon Police Bureau in the mid-’80s and the first woman to lead a major U.S. city’s police department—died at her home in Morro Bay, Calif., on September 15, 2021, at the age of 79.
Harrington became a police officer in 1964 in Portland and headed the Feminist Majority Foundation’s National Center for Women and Policing at its founding in 1995. Harrington served in Portland in the Women’s Protective Division and began to challenge discriminatory policies after a few years in the force. She became chief of police in 1985 and was the first woman in America to lead a police department in a major city.
Rest in Power: Rosalie Maggio, Feminist Author and “a Woman’s Woman”
Rosalie Maggio, recently of Los Angeles, Calif., died Sept. 18, 2021, after a short, heroic battle with pancreatic cancer. An award-winning author of 24 books and hundreds of articles, Maggio was on the forefront of popularizing inclusive language and women’s quotations.
Rest in Power: Arlene Pieper, Marathon Trailblazer
Arlene Pieper spent five decades not knowing she deserved a spot in sport history and women’s history, before being celebrated as the first woman to run a sanctioned marathon.