In this episode - a Reading Revolution installment - we discuss the essay "Love as the Practice of Freedom" by bell hooks and how it can apply to our contemporary leftist formations and debates on revolution. 
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Readings & Resources

bell hooks - "Love as the Practice of Freedom" (essay)
https://uucsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/bell-hooks-Love-as-the-Practice-of-Freedom.pdf

"Love as the Practice of Freedom" (audio)
https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/77-love-as-the-practice-of-freedom-readingrevolution-left-pocket-project-podcast

Remembering bell hooks & Her Critique of "Imperialist White Supremacist Heteropatriarchy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJKJZU7xXU&t=532s

bell hooks on Freire
https://t.co/vIrwItLrO4

The Revolutionary Writing of bell hooks
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-revolutionary-writing-of-bell-hooks

Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism
https://www.routledge.com/Aint-I-a-Woman-Black-Women-and-Feminism/hooks/p/book/9781138821514
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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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81. Love as the Practice of Freedom (discussion) - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast

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