bell hooks
Acting1952Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA
Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 - December 15, 2021) better known by her pen name as bell hooks, was a professor, social activist, public intellectual, cultural critic, feminist and author of 40 books, including Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Reel to Real, and All About Love: New Visions. In 2014, the bell hooks Center was founded at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, hooks died of kidney failure at her home, following a brief period of illness.
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9- 2024Becoming bell hooksMovieas Self
- 2018HillbillyMovieas Self
- 2014bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual PracticeMovieas Self
- 2004Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of MeMovieas Self · Novel
- 2002BaadAsssss CinemaMovieas Self
- 1998I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in AmericaMovieas Self
- 1997My FeminismMovieas Self
- 1997bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & TransformationMovieas Self
- 1995Black Is… Black Ain’tMovieas Self