bell hooks: "This ain't no pussy shit" I The New School 

I had Dr. Guy-Sheftall as a professor at Spelman. She really challenged my thinking of the role of women in relationships within the household. I can honestly say, that our class discussions have really shaped my views and allowed me to appreciate my marriage, my role as mother, and made me more cognizant of my interactions in life. More importantly, it has tremendously opened the dialogue on the roles of women in the world, now that we have two little girls.

I, too, don't want to see another movie where a black woman or man is brutalized. I wish they would just stop. I appreciate the statement "stay home". It's my haven, bell hooks.

51:40 hooks wrote her first book when she was 19 as an undergrad not as an assignment.

Okay, but what was that older white man's problem? It's so disrespectful and entitled of him to throw a book at bell hooks. I'm glad that she ignored his demand. Disgusting.

45:49 BGS: Rarely meet young people addicted to books as we were. hooks: I have a solitary life. Solitude and the ability to be alone with myself. Students aren't interested. They are lying in bed with social media.

Bell Hooks is a legend. 😌

is it me or is this more of a stream of consciousness bell hooks lecture than a discussion?

I love their brutal honestly.

this was just an amazing conversation as always with Bell Hooks and her guest!

I would like to share this conversation with my social media, but would like to share with Closed Captioning. If possible, please add it.

I'll watch all your youtube videos and I am reading all your books. Logic and honesty personified.

omg the white dude at the end :|

great discussion! thank you, new school, for these uploads.

What about a radical feminist scholar at the Bartlett School of Architecture telling her female PhD student to shut up. True story. Why haven't we spent more time thinking about how women have learned to abuse other women in retribution for their own abuse. Abuse is not gendered. Overall, professional men have treated me in a much fairer ways in both academics and the office.

I love bell hooks I enjoy and voraciously read all her books.

31:59 - 32:39 Critical exchange about freedom

I am not sure what you are entirely on about Manuel. Here in the realm of this discussion we are not just talking about brown as a random color, but a color that is synonymous with ugliness and being deficient or "less than" in some way. I hope for a world where a little children of any ethnic background can look at each other objectively and see beauty reflected in the differences of color and ethnicity and have that reinforced by a diverse and truly tolerant and multicultural society that is not a homogenized, "color blind" society, but one that begins to embrace difference and organically build tolerance between people. It is a devastating bi- product of white supremacy, that the color spectrum has been racialized. And I am not advocating here a homogenized vision of a color blind society, but a society in which all colors are noticed and valued for their unique qualities . And for women that have an open disgust for and/or feel threatened, or sensitive to male domination of any sot it is a contextual reflexive response to an historicized inequality,misogyny, that is institutionalized that continues to get propagated in an age of liberal individualism masquerading as equality and shallow pluralism- thankfully we have the work of feminists of all genders working to eradicate this hateful practice in concrete ways. And I would just like to reiterate that there are many men that feel this way too, and feel the constraints of patriarchy and other practices of domination on and in their lives on their journey to becoming more loving and self actualized. Words without action are empty and undermine and devalue their meaning. Feminism is not just an ideology it is a political form of resistance to institutionalized patriarchy(supported, aided and abetted by the white supremacist capitalist hegemony) and requires action and agency not just on the part of women but anyone that has claimed that title for themselves otherwise it just becomes diluted in the marketplace of ideas and loses its power- not because it is not relevant but because it is hollow, specious and lacks the revolutionary spirit in which we can re-imagine relations between the sexes, and races and re-imagine what the words feminine and masculine are prescriptive of... And the appeal of a black character Doc McStuffins as cool- just not her skin color is preposterous, "cool" is not synonymous with white supremacism- and never should be. And the premium of "cool" is very overrated and overvalued in Western culture. bell hooks you are an inspiration and your books make me feel a little less alone in this world. Thanks! Also I believe that by defining racism and sexism she gives us the very tools to bust through its hold on your consciousness she breaks out of the box and hides every lock (yes I paraphrased kendrick's lyric):) Phew! Peace and love to everyone- One.

56:00 there isn't a lot of money in writing dissident speech

Awesome!! really enjoyed the discussion :D

"If a woman was careless enough to find herself with an unwanted pregnancy?" 31:12 As true as that statement may be, that's harsh. Whew!

love this.

very insightful and moving

I am so glad I found the discussion.

YAAAS BELL!!1

Such an important discussion. Thank you!

1:01:00 Critique of Mom-in-chief representations of Michelle Obama

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amazing talk!

EXCELLENT!!!! 😄

Why not capitalize her name?

Is coming home late abusive or is it the freedom to come home, whenever you want? Who has the right to define, what is TOO late. This ladies have never been in Africa where they would find the most dominant and rassist men on earth.

1:10 Hooks saying to the young women struggling to ask her question, 'you've gone on a little too long.' when it is she who kept interrupting. Feminists are not able to act in a way that is consistent with what they ask from men. Let's ask feminists what they claim to achieve through their own sense of superiority towards other women.

In regard to 31:30 pro - abortion does not equal feminism.

I like learning. But I cannot stomach stupid as huge as displayed in this video.

Isn't she a communist? what does she think about all the failed communist states? Did she ever visit any of them? And if not, why?

Bell Crooks.

how are these people not classified as a hate group? or a religion?

A radical feminist AND a religious bigot??? I think I will pass....