bell hooks September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021

I first read bell hooks in a feminist course at UVU, the book Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Later, I read Ain’t I a Woman in a course at Emory. Several of her other works line my bookshelves. It is absolutely true – her insightful, trenchant and pointed critical writing has been significant for

Sartre’s Imaginary and the Problem of Whiteness

Abstract Jean-Paul Sartre’s failures in Black Orpheus have been widely and rightly explicated by a number of theorists, most notably Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire. Sartre has rightly been criticized for imposing a white gaze onto his reading of colonized African poetry. It would seem that his work offers us no tools for anti-racist work today. For

Loneliness

For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate. Albert Camus, The Stranger Loneliness is being acutely aware of the world’s utter indifference to your existence.