bell hooks Tribute

In Remembrance of bell hooks: On Being Human

Spring 2022 ♦

I met bell hooks in October 2014. At the time, I still held an image of her as an iconic writer rather than an enfleshed Black woman full of desire and deep feeling. She was, after all, one of the most consequential feminist writers and intellectuals of our time. And like…

On Naming and Lessons Learned

Qrescent Mali Mason ♦

Spring 2022 ♦

bell hooks Tribute, Creative Nonfiction

I have been thinking a lot about grief and love, having recently lost three of my most beloved and influential Black women elders, beginning with bell in December of 2021 and then my paternal grandmother, Gloria Evadne Atherton on March 18, 2022, and four days later, my paternal aunt, my Auntie…