Black women share what bell hooks taught them about feminism

"Tao Leigh Goffe, an assistant professor of literary theory and cultural history at Cornell University, said hooks’s writing served as “a portal” and a “lifeline.”'I felt initiated into a world where Women of Color feminism and solidarity were central, not an afterthought,' she wrote in an email. 'Studying the words of bell hooks made it clear...

Slavoj Zizek: In the West, people aren’t even aware they’re not free

"...[Professor Grant] Farred’s short book ‘Martin Heidegger Saved My Life’ was written in reaction to a racist encounter. In the fall of 2013, while he was raking leaves outside his home, a white woman stopped by and asked him, “Would you like another job?”, obviously mistaking him for a paid gardener of the family she assumed lived in the house....