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B is for bell. bell hooks was the author of over 30 books, including Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981), named by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the 20 most influential books published in 20 years; Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984); Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (1991), winner of the American Book Award/Before Columbus Foundation Award; Teaching to Transgress (1994); the children’s book Homemade Love (2002), named the Bank Street College Children’s Book of the Year; and the poetry collections And There We Wept (1978) and When Angels Speak of Love (2005), and Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (2012), winner of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s Best Poetry Award.
 
Throughout her life, hooks explored the relationship between s*xism, racism, and economic disparity in books aimed at scholars and at the public. In an interview with Bomb Magazine, she said, “To think of certain ways of writing as activism is crucial. What does it matter if we write eloquently about decolonization if it’s just white privileged kids reading our eloquent theory about it? Masses of black people suffer from internalized racism, our intellectual work will never impact on their lives if we do not move it out of the academy. That’s why I think mass media is so important.”

E is for Ev’Yan. Ev'Yan Whitney is a s*xuality doula, s*x educator, and author who helps women, femmes, and nonbinary folks liberate, decolonize, and heal their relationships to s*x, pleasure, and their bodies. Check out her work Sensual Self to get in touch with your body. .whitney

H is for Hart. Ericka Hart is a s*x educator, speaker, and workshop facilitator providing social-justice-focused s*x education to young people.
Her experiences as a breast cancer survivor shaped her work as a s*x educator, and she teaches about body image and positivity, q***r literacy, inclusiveness, and gender. She also speaks to a general audience about her areas of expertise, which include kink, polyamory, and the intersection of s*x and health care.