bell hooks
- Acting
- September 25, 1952 · Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA
- December 15, 2021
Biography
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
Filmography
- Becoming bell hooks · Self
- Hillbilly · Self
- bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice · Self
- Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me · Self, Novel
- BaadAsssss Cinema · Self
- I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America · Self
- My Feminism · Self
- bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation · Self
- Black Is… Black Ain’t · Self