I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one anotherโs differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this โIn order to love you, I must make you something elseโ. Thatโs what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.
Bell Hooks... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.
Bell HooksLying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.
Bell HooksWriting and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
Bell HooksFeminist education โ the feminist classroom โ is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university.
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