‘She contained multitudes’: memories and tributes to bell hooks | Tamura Lomax, Stephanie Troutman, Imani Perry, Quentin Walcott and others

The beloved community bell helped to create' remembers a teacher, friend, mentor and the impact her work will continue to have

I was asked to write about bell hooks' life and legacy but I realized it would not be true to the spirit of how she lived for any one person to sum her up. Instead I have gathered a communal offering of memory, friendship, loss and love for the visionary we've lost.

bell spent her life standing up against imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" - a phrase she said she didn't much like but which connected all the forms of domination that are enslaving us in the world today. I watched her create, along with other women, a vision of Black feminism that invigorated an entire generation. She taught me personally about so many things: decolonization, the tyranny and trap of masculinity, how love must be our guiding principle in all that we do, the roles white women can and can't play in this movement.