![]() She frequently dropped the name of a book title that I knew I should look up. Indeed, something I loved about All About Love is the way that hooks consistently cites her sources. Now, I don’t want to erase what came before. So to hear this noted feminist writer who didn’t identify as asexual or aromantic come right out of the gate and frame love in such a diverse and inclusive way? Wow. Yet my platonic relationships are still incredibly important to me-if not more important, consequently-and are loving. I have no desire to have or intention of having a partner in the traditional, romantic sense of the word. As I have shared in many of my previous reviews, I am asexual and aromantic. ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved it, every word.Ī great deal of what hooks writes about certainly pertains to romantic love, yet from the very beginning she makes it clear that she is writing about all kinds of love. Where do I start? Do I lament sheepishly how I’ve slept on bell hooks my entire adult life, and it is only now, at thirty-three, now that she has passed, that I’ve made time to read even one of her books? Do I confess that this was a revelation, that it was exactly the book I needed here and now? This review will be purely encomium, for that is what I feel about All About Love: New Visions. ![]()
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