Forever, For Always, For Love
Join us on Tuesday, May 12, when One Book One Bronx begins our journey through All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks. Free and open to the public. REGISTER: https://bit.ly/bellhooksallaboutlove
With this selection, we hope to assist in the collective search for empathy, build a better way to connect to love and joy, and create a welcoming community for those grappling with anxiety in these times of isolation. One Book One Bronx is a weekly space that explores a variety of text and encourages tangential conversations. Invite friends. Purchase your copy through your favorite independent bookseller or find your well-worn copy --don’t matter. The first week we'll discuss the book's introduction and chapters one and two. .
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DISCUSSION SCHEDULE
Tuesdays, 7-830pm
May 12: Introduction to chapter 2, pgs intro-30
May 19: chapters: 3 to 5, pgs 31-84
May 26: chapters 6 to 8, pgs 85-144
June 2: chapters 9 to 11, pgs 145-206
June 9: chapters 12-13, pgs 207 to end
The acclaimed first volume in bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation"
"The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, bell hooks (renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist) skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.
As bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can.
