💬📚 “The acafan… is one who is able to occupy the spaces of both fandom and academia and speak authoritatively on both.” A Fan Studies Primer, “Introduction,” edited by Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams

💬📚 “Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

📚💬📝 “…the work of critical thinking and theorizing is itself an expression of political praxis that constructs a foundation wherein individual action can be united with collective struggle.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “Critical writing counts for very little when critics speak about ending domination… in our work without changing individual habits of being…” bell hooks, remenbered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “The point is not to render ideas less complex—the point is to make the complex clear.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “I write with the intent to share ideas in a manner that makes them accessible to the widest possible audience.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “All academics write but not all see themselves as writers.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “No woman is writing too much. Women need to write more. We need to know what it feels like to be submerged in language, carried away by the passion of writing words.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “…we must not let the commercial success of writing by women lead us to believe that the struggle to create and maintain a culture where women’s words will be heard and valued is over. That struggle continues.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “Even in academic circles it has become much more fashionable to do work on gender than work that is distinctly feminist in outlook.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work