when the bell stops ringing: bell hooks and the ending of forever

“The amount of deaths we’ve experienced, whether directly or inadvertently through our scrolling on social media, has impacted us in ways we won’t know until this chapter of the existence of the globe is over. But bell hooks leaving this earth left so many of us speechless. Her writings and teachings met so many of us at a time where we had never considered there was a place for the voices of Black women in the feminist movement. She spoke to that uncertainty and reminded us not only is there a place but that our voices have leadership and power and purpose.”

WOMANHOODCaneeka MillerDecember 17, 2021

On Motherhood: Acceptance and Belonging

“There’s mourning that happens in motherhood we fail to give ourselves the space to acknowledge. But even in our mourning, the collisions our kids will endure we still have to lean into our wisdom and offer them the beauty of what we have received from our own collisions with the world. Leaning is hard. Sometimes it knocks us off our balance and we believe we don’t have the words or we haven’t lived enough to teach with depth. But love is deep. And the greatest of these is love. So let love lead you in your offerings…”