Released:
2024-02-27

Overview:
Explore the life and legacy of Kentucky-born author bell hooks, who wrote nearly 40 books and whose work at the intersection of race, class and gender serves as a lasting contribution to the feminist movement. Learn how bell’s childhood in Hopkinsville and her connection to Kentucky’s “hillbilly culture” informed her views and her belief that feminism is for everybody. Becoming bell hooks, a one-hour documentary, features selections read by Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer and interviews with feminist activist Gloria Steinem, Kentucky writers Crystal Wilkinson and Silas House, bell’s younger sister Gwenda Motley and many others.

Directors:
Elon Justice, Sarah Louise Moyer

Runtime:
0h 59min

Genre:
Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  bell hooks
  as
  Self
• 
  Octavia Spencer
  as
  Self
• 
  Gloria Steinem
  as
  Self
• 
  Crystal Wilkinson
  as
  Self
• 
  Silas House
  as
  Self