![]() For me, hooks remains forever indispensable.ġ. I do not know that I could ever claim to fully understand her work, but I can safely say that every time I revisit her work I come away with a deeper and more powerful understanding–both of her words and of myself. As I discuss below, the text was a fundamental one in framing my approaches to the questions I ask, and hooks has had a profound effect on my thinking and self-awareness, both as a scholar and as a human being. ![]() ![]() Teaching to Transgress: Language as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks is one of the most illuminating texts I’ve come across. “It is feminist thinking that empowers me to engage in a constructive critique of Freire’s work (which I needed so that as a young reader of his work I did not passively absorb the worldview presented) and yet there are many other standpoints from which I approach his work that enable me to experience its value, that make it possible for that work to touch me at the very core of my being.” ![]()
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