But I was filled with the anger of youth rebellion, lacking the language, history, or context to truly understand the depth of my rage. As I settled into my chosen discipline-women and gender studies-the academic world of feminist theory was reaching its apex. I read these words in the late ’90s as an undergraduate student at the University at Albany. “Revolutionary ideology can be created only if the experiences of people on the margin who suffer sexist oppression and other forms of group oppression are understood, addressed, and incorporated,” she wrote. Hooks, who passed away on December 15 at the age of 69 in her home state of Kentucky, took to task the decades-long inability of the feminist establishment to consider the experiences of marginalized women. “To build a mass-based feminist movement, we need to have a liberatory ideology that can be shared with everyone,” bell hooks wrote in her groundbreaking 1984 book, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center.
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