Queer feminist author bell hooks died December 15 at her home in Brea, Kentucky, according to a report in the Lexington Herald.
She was 69. Her sister Gwenda Motley said the cause was end-stage renal cancer, the New York Times reported. Ms. hooks, who insisted on using all lowercase letters in her name, wrote about intersectionality long before many others, the Advocate noted in its obituary.
She once described her identity as "queer-pas-gay," the magazine noted. She was critical, however, of those who viewed racism and homophobia as the same. "White people, gay and straight, could show greater understanding of the impact of racial oppression on people of color by not attempting to make these oppressions synonymous, but rather by showing