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May 01, 2013
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I'll meet you there: bell hooks resources

themindislimitless:

Edit 13th June: a lot of the PDFs have been taken down from those websites. There’s a .rar of the 16 from 24 June here, thanks to classickk. If THAT gets taken down, send me an ask.

If you have any more, or alternate links just in case these ever get removed, feel free to add to the list. Pass the resources along!

Edit as of 24 June: list updated and alphabetized. Many thanks to wretchedoftheearth, elainecastillo, grim-dark, erosum and mmmajestic who all helped add links and resources.
Edit 25 June. Thank you andreaisace. (I keep each of these edit-notes so I and people who’ve seen the post know if I’ve added any and which since the last time they saw it. The links go to the post in which each link was given)

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Tags: bell hooks yes good for future reference

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February 04, 2013
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"The best sex and the most satisfying sex are not the same. I have had great sex with men who were intimate terrorists."

— bell hooks 

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Tags: bell hooks BELL SPEAKS THE TRUTH sex sexuality

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January 28, 2013
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"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape."

— Bell Hooks 

(Source: ciciross, via somethingscosmic)

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September 25, 2012
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wretchedoftheearth: Happy 60th birthday to bell hooks Go celebrate the birthday of one of the most amazing author/feminist/social activists by reading her work for free or some of my favorite quotes by her

wretchedoftheearth:

Happy 60th birthday to bell hooks

Go celebrate the birthday of one of the most amazing author/feminist/social activists by reading her work for free or some of my favorite quotes by her

(via thenewwomensmovement)

Tags: bell hooks such a great woman

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September 03, 2012
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"All girls continue to be taught when they are young, if not by their parents then by the culture around them, that they must earn the right to be loved — that “femaleness” is not good enough. This is a female’s first lesson in the school of patriarchal thinking and values. She must earn love. She is not entitled. She must be good enough to be loved. And good is always defined by someone else, someone on the outside."

— bell hooks in Communion: Female Search for Love 

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Tags: to read bell hooks love

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August 14, 2012
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"Straight men were thrilled to encounter sexually liberated females who also paid their share of the date. Conflicts and problems began when the wanton feminist cared to exercise control over her body and say no when she wanted to. Feminists’ refusal to make satisfying male desire the primary goal of female sexual liberation disturbed men."

— bell hooks in Communion: Female Search for Love 

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Tags: not surprising in the slightest bell hooks sexuality

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June 27, 2012
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"I am passionate about everything in my life -first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that’s a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I’m a woman, but because it’s such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society."

— bell hooks (via theangryblackwoman)

(Source: giseleblack, via thenewwomensmovement)

Tags: bell hooks always on point about me

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June 25, 2012
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bell hooks resources

themindislimitless:

If you have any more, or alternate links just in case these ever get removed, feel free to add to the list. Pass the resources along!

Edit as of 24 June: list updated and alphabetized. Many thanks to wretchedoftheearth, elainecastillo, grim-dark, erosum and mmmajestic who all helped add links and resources.

Tags: bell hooks for future reference

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June 19, 2012
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"When anyone thinks a woman who serves ‘gives cause that’s what mothers or real women do’, they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts."

— bell hooks, All About Love (via grrrlstudies)

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Tags: yep! bell hooks always on point always

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June 18, 2012
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"While feminist supporters like to think that feminism has been the motivating force behind changes in woman’s role, in actuality changes in the American capitalist economy have had the greatest impact on the status of women. More women than ever before are in America’s work force not because of feminism but because families can no longer rely on the income of the father. Feminism has been used as a psychological tool to make women think that work they might otherwise see as boring, tedious, and time consuming is liberating. For whether feminism exists or not, women must work. Overt misogynist attacks on women occurred long before the feminist movement, and most women who bear the brunt of male aggression and brutality today are not feminists."

— bell hooks (via transformfeminism)

(Source: wretchedoftheearth, via loveyourchaos)

Tags: bell hooks always on point