Special honor to bell hooks, who passed December 15, 2021. I am thankful to you for making my work possible, and I hope to live in gratitude for the ways your work has affirmed my breath and being. Thank you, bell hooks.

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Questions: 

1. bell hooks tenderly describes her relationship with Paulo Freire and his teachings in Teaching to Transgress. Similarly, how has Freire's work impacted you?

2. Explain how you arrived at the understanding of "rest as vocation"?

3. Praxis is an important part of critical pedagogy. Beyond conversations, what does praxis look like for DSBW?

4. As this conversation grows and more voices join in, what are your hopes for the soft black woman listening? What do you want to see for us? 

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A question for you:

What does a praxis (action and reflection) of softness look like for you? 

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Sources Mentioned:

• Charlene A. Carruthers: Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements. 


• Lucille Clifton: How to Carry Water: Selected Poems. ed by Aracelis Grimay. You can read to "won't you celebrate me" here.


• Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed.


• Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the City.


• bell hooks: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. 


• bell hooks: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope.


• Patrick B. Reyes: Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community and Surviving to Adulthood. 


• Chanequa Walker-Barnes: Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength. 

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