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BornSeptember 25, 1952
DiedDecember 15, 2021 (age 69)
Place of birthHopkinsville, Kentucky, USA
Film credits9
bell hooks
DeceasedKnown for Acting
Biography
Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 - December 15, 2021) better known by her pen name as bell hooks, was a professor, social activist, public intellectual, cultural critic, feminist and author of 40 books, including Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Reel to Real, and All About Love: New Visions. In 2014, the bell hooks Center was founded at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, hooks died of kidney failure at her home, following a brief period of illness.
Filmography
Becoming bell hooks
2024
as Self
Hillbilly
2018
as Self
bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice
2014
as Self
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
as Self
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
as Self
I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America
1998
as Self
My Feminism
1997
as Self
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
1997
as Self
Black Is… Black Ain’t
1995
as Self