Join us on 30 November for BarBichette’s first book club night! And what a better way to kick off our book night series with a look into bell hooks’ reflections on love and society in her acclaimed book All About Love: New Visions. During the evening, we will dive into bell hooks’ radical rethinking of love as a force for change in both private and public spheres.
You don’t need to read the full book to join our discussion, but we encourage you to read at least a couple of chapters, listen to the audiobook or watch an interview with bell hooks. Check the links provided below. We also have a copy of the book in our library for full members, so contact us at stephy@barbichette.org if you want to borrow it.
Practical info [change of venue!]: 18h30 to 21h00 in the downstairs room at Chez Mon Ex, Rue de Roumanie 2, 1060 Saint-Gilles
About bell hooks
bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins) was an African-American author, poet, feminist, and social activist. Throughout her life, through her books, poems, talks and lectures, she explored the relationship between racism, sexism, and capitalism, providing radical insights into changing communities, individuals and societies.
About All About Love: New Visions
‘’All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood. She offers a rethinking of self-love (without narcissism) that will bring peace and compassion to our personal and professional lives, and asserts the place of love to end struggles between individuals, in communities, and among societies. Moving from the cultural to the intimate, hooks notes the ties between love and loss and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is the most important love of all.
Visionary and original, hooks shows how love heals the wounds we bear as individuals and as a nation, for it is the cornerstone of compassion and forgiveness and holds the power to overcome shame.’’ (from Good Reads)
Read, listen, watch All About Love
Interview with bell hooks on her book All About Love: New Visions