Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.
Bell HooksA central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women.
Bell HooksBeloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.
Bell HooksThe world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.
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