bell hooks
September 25, 1952 (72 years old) in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA
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
Credits
- 2024 · Becoming bell hooks as Self
- 2018 · Hillbilly as Self
- 2014 · bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice as Self
- 2004 · Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me as Self
- 2002 · BaadAsssss Cinema as Self
- 1998 · I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America as Self
- 1997 · My Feminism as Self
- 1997 · bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation as Self
- 1994 · Black Is… Black Ain’t as Self