bell hooks
Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 - December 15, 2021) better known by her pen name as bell hooks, was a professor, social activist, public intellectual, cultural critic, feminist and author of 40 books, including Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Reel to Real, and All About Love: New Visions. In 2014, the bell hooks Center was founded at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, hooks died of kidney failure at her home, following a brief period of illness.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1952-09-25 · Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA
- Died
- 2021-12-15
Known for
- BaadAsssss Cinema (2002) — Self
- Black Is… Black Ain’t (1995) — Self
- Hillbilly (2018) — Self
- My Feminism (1997) — Self
- Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004) — Self
- I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America (1998) — Self
- Becoming bell hooks (2024) — Self
- bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation (1997) — Self
- bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice (2014) — Self