Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
September 25, 1952
Place of Birth:
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA
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.
Year | Movie | Role |
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2024 | Becoming bell hooks | Self |
2018 | Hillbilly | Self |
2014 | bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice | Self |
2004 | Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me | Self |
2002 | BaadAsssss Cinema | Self |
1998 | I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America | Self |
1997 | My Feminism | Self |
1997 | bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation | Self |
1994 | Black Is… Black Ain’t | Self |
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