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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
Bell Hooks, renowned cultural critic and feminist theorist, gave the keynote address at the 12th annual conference of the Texas Council on Family Violence on October 13, 1993. She had just published her book, titled “Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery”, and she was working on that book to be titled “Killing Rage: Ending Racism” (1995). Her talk, full of personal anecdotes, analyzes connections amongst racism, sexism, rage, and violence (both in media and in life). She states that we cannot stop violence without confronting the belief that violence is normal and “interrogating the violence in ourselves”. This reprise of that talk includes a tribute added upon her death in 2021.
Bell Hooks grew up in a small Black community in Kentucky. She taught at many universities in fields including African American Studies, Women’s Studies, and Literature. She published more than 30 books on race, culture, feminism, and education.
The Women’s International News Gathering Service (WINGS) has been covering the global women’s movement and related issues for community radio since 1986. WINGS may be contacted at [email protected].
