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Hi everyone,

I am posting twice (I missed last week's post). 

The vulnerability with which Hall and hooks speak is inspiring. It displays a very human component to conversational exchange but also demonstrates a journey of growth for both of them. In one instance, hooks unpacks a public statement she made about Oprah and the backlash she received. She has this to say about it, "That is part of what has led to a certain kind of collapse with feminism, this desire to restrict the boundaries of how we talk about certain things, a certain kind of overlay of heavy-handed political correctness." (12) Reflecting on the topic of political correctness, how can policing what we say and how we say it a form of policing vulnerable conversations such as these? What does the turn to cancel culture in the context of PC politics doing? How is this not the work we should be putting our energy in? How can we have a more human approach to human error?

Later on in Hall and hooks conversation, they unpack the messiness of desire, reproduction, sexual jealousy, and monogamy. hooks points to androgyny as a politic of the self that allows one to gender bend and be our own whole selves for the love our ourselves as we are for the exploration of desires (starts p.73). Why do you think it is so difficult for academicians to talk about/write about desire? How does an exploration of desire hold potential for a sort of self-reflexive journey to becoming our whole selves?

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