All About Love | Bell Hooks

Why it is included:

We often treat love as a sentiment we "fall" into.

bell hooks reclaims it as a rigorous Ethic—an act of will that implies "care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect, and trust."

She argues that there can be no love without justice.

This book provides the moral backbone of the section.

It teaches that "Co-Creation" is impossible in a hierarchy of domination.

To truly collaborate, we must dismantle the power structures inside our own relationships and replace them with a love that is an active, transformative force for social change.