Bell Hooks
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Nyakallo Maleke and the gentle radicalism of drawing as care
A tender meditation on care, memory and materiality, this artist’s work invites us to slow down and feel the soul
Remembering bell hooks: There is no way to be ‘everybody’
Radical feminist bell hooks taught us to sit with perturbation and vulnerability as we revel in difference
An extract from bell hooks’s ‘Outlaw Culture’: Seduced by violence no more
In this extract from bell hooks’s book ‘Outlaw Culture’, (chapter title above) she expounds on women’s role in confronting rape culture
Reading bell hooks: A selection of readings that highlight her intellectual labour
Mapule Mohulatsi selects a few essential titles from her oeuvre, interviews and publications about her
bell hooks and the return to radical love
bell hooks’ intentional accessibility shows how feminist theory can be used against patriarchy
A spirit guide to ethical black feminist thinking and praxis
bell hooks’s refusal to ‘get in formation’ foregrounded healing as the foundation to a communal liberatory agenda
An ‘aesthetic inheritance’: ugogo the [visual] griot
Refiguring ugogo as a critical figure in the making of Black [visual] archives
The List: A peek at the Stevenson library
Stevenson gallery staff took to Instagram to share a small selection of literature guiding their “respective journeys towards listening, learning and confronting bias”
A ghostbusting care package
A multimedia care package of reading material, series, movies and music to indulge in if you’re ghosted
What makes a good bookstore?
A trip to find the best shops for African literature raised the question of what makes a bookstore worth visiting.
The Lists: ‘The Thing Around Your Neck’, MF Doom and Anthony and the Johnsons
This week’s reading and listening recommendations are from Milisuthando Bongela, Tarryn Crossman and Sisonke Msimang.