All About LOVE: bell hooks in THEORY and in PRACTICE

What's love got to do with it? Damn near everything. Kick off your weekend of love by unpacking All About Love in word and in practice.

This BYOP --bring your own partner (or fly solo).

Great for the lovers of language and words, book lovers and thinkers, lovers who like small groups and deep table top conversation.

Make your own chocolate covered strawberries and Harriett's will serve champagne while Dr. Qrescent Mali Mason and her real life love, Kevin Garner, share their real life experience with bell hooks and how she bought them together in a beautiful way. Both worked and studied directly under bell hooks in different capacities. Then we will invite you to ask yourself questions about your love life.

Ticket includes a copy of All About Love by bell hooks, romance incense and a lil love potion.

ALL ABOUT LOVE

Using personal stories to support her analysis, bell hooks begins by discussing her experiences with lovelessness. She considers the lack of a clear, universal definition of love, examines the coexistence of love and abuse, often ingrained in childhood, and argues that justice is necessary to cultivate authentic love.

Qrescent Mali Mason is Black feminist phenomenologist, thinker-artist, Associate Professor of philosophy at Haverford College, and co-founder of the Black Love Studies Institute. Former President of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society and co-Associate editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, her writings include “To be Fussed Over: A Critical Phenomenological Examination of Black Feminist Practices of Care in the Midst of Polycrisis,” and “Swimming in Moonlight: On Viewing Black Masculinity Differently with bell hooks.”She is writing her first book, Seducing Simone: A Memoir for bell hooks, and co-editing a forthcoming bell hooks.

Kevin Garner is a meditation practitioner from California. He began his practice as a teenager, studying with Shifu Wang Bo of the Shaolin Temple, and continued into adulthood sitting retreats and receiving personal instruction from teachers including Sharon Salzberg, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, John Tarrant and Joseph Goldstein. From 2018-2019, he was the student and personal caretaker of the feminist philosopher bell hooks in Berea, Kentucky, going on to care for her during her passing in 2021. He is currently pursuing a degree in English from Temple University and is most interested in a love ethic rooted in mindfulness and anti-domination.