Written by Karsonya Wise Whitehead [https://theconversation.com/profiles/karsonya-wise-whitehead-1299623], Loyola University
Maryland [https://theconversation.com/institutions/loyola-university-maryland-1686]
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I was introduced to the work of bell hooks for the first time when I was 14 years old, sitting on my Nana’s porch, complaining
about the mosquitoes and the heat.
My Nana, who was probabl
