bell hooks: Moving from Pain to Power I The New School

Join bell hooks, Marci Blackman, and Darnell Moore in a discussion sponsored by Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts (https://www.newschool.edu/lang) at The New School (https://www.newschool.edu/) on confronting loss and moving from pain to power. Marci Blackman is an author, her first novel, Po Man’s Child, received the American Library Association’s Stonewall Award for Best Fiction and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Best New Fiction. Her second novel, Tradition was noted as one of Band of Thebes best books of 2013. Darnell L. Moore is a Senior Editor at MicNews and Co-Managing/Editor at The Feminist Wire. Along with NFL player Wade Davis II, he co-founded YOU Belong, a social good company focused on the development of diversity initiatives. bell hooks is an author, activist, feminist and scholar-in-residence at The New School. This fall is her fifth and final week-long visit in a three-year residency. Location: Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang College Wednesday, October 7, 2015 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm