Relational
What if love isn't something you feel, but something you do?
Movies, songs, and greeting cards treat love like a feeling that strikes you. You fall into it. You're swept away. It happens to you. bell hooks thought this was one of the most damaging ideas in our culture.
To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients: care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.— bell hooks, *All About Love*
The full breakdown — the context, the shift, and a question to sit with — opens in the Insights app.
The thinker
Cultural Critic & Love Theorist
bell hooks (1952–2021) was an American author, professor, and social critic whose work explored how love, race, gender, and power intersect in everyday life.
Based on bell hooks — Are You Ready for Love?, summarised and reframed by Insights.
Part of these journeys
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