The beloved author, radical feminist, and poet known as bell hooks has tranisitioned. ‘bell hooks’, whose real name is Gloria Jean Watkins, died on Wednesday at the age of 69.

She adopted the ‘bell hooks’ moniker as a tribute to her maternal great-grandmother whose name was Bell Blair Hooks. Allegedly, hooks didn’t capitalize her name because she wanted the public to focus on her ideas and not her persona.

The ‘hooks’ family announced her death in an official statement through William Morrow Publishers. Additional details were not immediately available, although according to multiple reports, a close friend and colleague, Dr. Linda Strong-Leek said that she had been ill for a long time.

bell hooks is to my mind the mother of much of the current black feminist theory we see today online and beyond. She is endlessly complex and her work is vast in scope. She is simply everything. pic.twitter.com/U9DIiv0b6H

— M Lamar (@M_Lamar) December 14, 2021

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