bell hooks

Biography

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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. BaadAsssss Cinema (2002) — Self
2. Black Is… Black Ain’t (1995) — Self
3. Hillbilly (2018) — Self
4. My Feminism (1997) — Self
5. Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004) — Self
6. I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America (1998) — Self
7. Becoming bell hooks (2024) — Self
8. bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation (1997) — Self
9. bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice (2014) — Self