Bell Hooks Quotes About Transformation

• Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.

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  Strong, Confused, Reality

  bell hooks (2014). “Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism”, p.6, Routledge

• El esfuerzo feminista para acabar con la dominación patriarcal debería ser de interés primordial precisamente porque insiste en la erradicación de la explotación y la opresión en el contexto familiar y en todas las demás relaciones íntimas. Es el movimiento político que más radicalmente se dirige a la persona -a lo personal-, citando la necesidad de la transformación del yo, de las relaciones, para que seamos más capaces de actuar de forma revolucionaria, desafiando y resistiendo a la dominación, transformando el mundo fuera del yo.

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  Intimate Relationships, Self, Feminist

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.34, Routledge

• La importancia del movimiento feminista (cuando no es cooptado por fuerzas oportunistas y reaccionarias) es que ofrece un nuevo terreno de encuentro ideológico para los sexos, un espacio para la crítica, la lucha y la transformación.

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  Sexo, lucha, espacio

  bell hooks (2014). "Teoría feminista: From Margin to Center", p.52, Routledge

• Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.

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  Stress, Commitment, White

  "Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center". Book by Bell Hooks, 1984.

• All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

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  Commitment, Reflection, Self

• When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo

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  Practice, Creating, Effort

  Bell Hooks (2013). “Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice”, p.29, Routledge

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