Outlaw Culture
Resisting Representations

As a part of my reading goals this year, I've read a lot of bell hooks so far and no doubt her wisdom and teachings on a wide array of culturally relevant phenomena are invaluable. But perhaps what will stick with me the most is her understanding of pain as a fruitful place of transformation and her......more

In her introduction, hooks writes about finding herself at home in Cultural Studies ‘where interdisciplinary work [as opposed to the conventional specialised & periodised pedagogy she’d felt so limited by] was encouraged and affirmed’. When white male academics in the US discovered Cultural Studies,......more

My friends don’t get bell hooks. Often when they read bell hooks, and they typically never read past All About Love: New Visions (the most trendy and TikTokified of her books), they report back and say that they don’t see the hype. It’s hard to blame them – her once scintillating declarations that,......more