Understanding Intersectionality and Oppression in Feminism

For Black History Month, our Disability Download hosts Peter and Beth spoke with creator, comedian, model and disability advocate FatsTimbo, and academic Cassandra Lovelock, as well as a few friendly members of the public, to discuss, amongst many other things, the intersectionality of disability and race. 🎧 Listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts. Video description: A photo of the beautiful Fatstimbo sits on the top of a visualisation of the podcast audio, with captions underneath

Today's Black History Moment is about bell hooks. Thanks to the remarkable Professor Furaha Henry-Jones for the fabulous narration! Gloria Jean Watkins (born September 25, 1952), better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is borrowed from her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. The focus of hooks' writing has been the intersectionality of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she describes as their ab