Remembering bell hooks through memories and stories

At the bell hooks center, we continue to mourn the loss of our dissident feminist namesake. In reverence for bell’s visionary life and work, we come together (as bell suggests) to “heal [as] an act of communion.” Please join us in a memory and story circle to practice one of bell’s many lessons: “Love invites us to grieve for the dead as a ritual of mourning and as celebration” For those of us who loved her and who love her still, we want (in bell’s own words) “to be open to grieve, to be touched by [the] sorrow” of having lost her, we invite you to come share a memory, a story, an anecdote about your time with bell and the ways in which her thinking and being has shaped your life.