Bell hooks, key author of class and anti-racist feminism, dies

Kidney failure has cost the life of the influential American essayist Gloria Jean Watkins at the age of 69, better known by her nom de guerre: bell hooks –in lower case– that she borrowed from her great-grandmother.

The news of the death has been confirmed by his niece Ebony Motley and advanced by the Lexington Herald Leader. In his essays, which were lately being translated into Spanish, hooks anticipated some of the theoretical debates that are being experienced today on the left.

Poet, essayist and critic, in his more than 40 books he analyzes the interrelationship between different forms of oppression and exploitation: for reasons of sex, class and race.

Ascribed to the Third Wave of feminism and to the so-called 'intersectionality' approach, she was highly critical of middle-class and upper-class bourgeois white feminism, which she saw as insensitive towards questions of race or social class.

"We will always read you"

The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, has reacted on her profile on the social network Twitter to the news of the death of hooks: "Today one of the most brilliant writers of intersectional feminism has passed away. Thank you for all the legacy you leave us, bell hooks. We will always read you to remind you "