[ SECRET POST #3315 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3315 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why don't you spell bell hooks's name with capitals?

[(Anonymous)]

bell hooks prefers to write her pen name in lowercase letters, feeling that by spelling he name in all lowercase it places the focus on her work rather than on her as an author.

Granted it's not some huge travesty if you capitalize her name (hooks herself has stated she isn't bothered if people do it) but you're gonna look pretty stupid if you can't get the name of one of the most influential living feminists right.

[sparrow_lately]

Because that's how she personally chooses to style it. She took her name from a relative of hers, and the lowercase spelling is a statement in and of itself. hooks likes to push back against generally unquestioned structures, includingly the seemingly small (though, when one considers the power of language and literacy the ways in which oppressed people have been systematically kept from it, not so small) matters of linguistic prescriptivism.

[elialshadowpine]

Thank you for explaining this. It's something I'd always wondered about, but not enough to actually, y'know, google it. Just, I'd see her name and think "Huh" and move on. So knowing it's an active statement is pretty cool.