For The Love of Love

an essay on bell hooks

Today revolutionary thinker, writer and philosopher of our times, bell hooks died. After Etel Adnan passed only a few weeks ago, I feel a bit numb hearing about hooks’ death — it feels too immediate, too close to the bone.

Anyway, I wanted to share this essay that I wrote after exiting a shitty dating experience for The Hairpin (it’s also below) which th…