"The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. - *Teaching to Transgress*
bell hooks said “To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending.”
we carry people on with us. we carry their legacies and teachings with us, with every step we take and every act of love we enact on ourselves and others. even in grief.
“It was clear to audiences that I practiced what I preached. That union of theory and praxis was a dynamic example for teachers seeking practical wisdom.” - bell hooks on teaching 1/3
Del Toro defines NOIR as “the poetry of disillusionment and existentialism. It’s the real grittiness that comes out of American realism—those films that channel the same spirit as Edward Hopper.”
bell hooks, 🕯2021 has taken too much from us
her essay “eating the other” truly informs me as a scholar everyday
“Within commodity culture, ethnicity becomes spice, seasoning that can liven up the dull dish that is mainstream white culture.”