loppear reviewed All About Love by bell hooks
excellent positive tone and cultural critique
4 stars
Love is a willful act, to honestly commit and extend yourself to make others' conditions of growth your own. The ways our society portrays love as compatible with domination, selfishness, accumulation, and instant gratification make it harder to recognize and enact meaningful love, but we all have access to loving counter-narratives in community, friendships, religion, self-acceptance, etc.
My first hooks, a deeply well-read commentator pulling in a wide range of threads from 20c writing and her personal experiences.
