Gloria Jean Watkins was her given name, but we all probably know her best by her penned name “bell hooks” it is said that she liked using the lower-case spelling of her name to decenter herself and to focus more so on her work. Not only was she an phenomenal author, she was a theorist, educator, and social critic. She published around 40 books and focused primarily on intersectionality, race, feminism, and class. She would go on to pass in December 2021, but her writings will forever live on.