Showing posts with label bell hooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bell hooks. Show all posts

Sunday, September 11, 2016

bell hooks on Patriarchal Masculinity and the Will to Dominate — Not to Love


I have shared this excerpt from bell hooks' All About Love with you previously.

I'm sharing it with you again today — because Donald Trump and his supporters.

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

bell hooks on Worship of Death As Central Component of Patriarchal Thinking: Reflections on the Legacy of Antonin Scalia



The Constitution is a dead document, Scalia said.

• You can know that a society or a church is dead or well on the way to death when it proclaims that its foundational documents (a Constitution, a Bible) are dead.

Monday, November 16, 2015

bell hooks on Worship of Death As Central Component of Patriarchal Thinking: The Events in Paris and Our Response to Them



On my retreat the last two weeks, I read bell hooks' book All About Love: New Visions (NY: William Morrow, 2000). The following passage has profound resonance for me now, after the events several days ago in Paris: