Actor
bell hooks
Born 1952 · 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.
Acting

My Feminism
Self · 1997

BaadAsssss Cinema
Self · 2002

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Self · 2004

Hillbilly
Self · 2018

Black Is… Black Ain’t
Self · 1995

bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
Self · 1997

Becoming bell hooks
Self · 2024

bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice
Self · 2014

I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America
Self · 1998