Category: Centering Abundance

Yesterday, we learned that bell hooks, scholar, writer, poet, a woman I credit as one of my own intellectual foremothers, became an ancestor. I have always been drawn to her method of boldly acknowledging the influence of culture, system, and structural oppression while also lovingly affirming our individual agency, collective power and choice as we strive to “survive whole.” As we wrap up the year and continue our conversation on what it means to center abundance, it feels timely to offer a few rememberings by bell hooks that emphasize the role of and power in community as we work toward a more just and loving world.