Beatrice Duodu recommends a revolutionary book about love

BarcelonaTV3 news presenter Beatrice Duodu Owusu (Ghana, 1996), who has repeatedly denounced the underrepresentation of black women in the media, recommends an essay book: All about love, by bell hooks (Tigre de Paper, 2025), translated into Catalan by Anna Llisterri.

Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021) She was an American feminist who, like Angela Davis, championed and opened the debate on the presence of Black women in feminist leadership. She called herself Bell Hooks in homage to her maternal great-grandmother and wrote her name in lowercase because, as she herself argued, this gave greater importance to ideas.

In her work, Bell Hooks questions how our society has understood love. Furthermore, she challenges the notion that romantic love is more important than the rest. "It's the most realistic and accurate definition of what love really is. Highly recommended for breakups, new beginnings, or redefinitions with your partner, friends, family, and, above all, with yourself," says Duodu. The journalist emphasizes that hooks doesn't limit herself to giving advice on how to have better relationships: "She speaks from an activist perspective, she speaks of radical love politics. Can you imagine, in the current geopolitical context, decisions being made based on the love they could spread? It sounds utopian, but hooks makes it possible in this book. Finally, as a woman, as an anti-racist, decolonial, and feminist woman—and at that, the great bello hooks—is an expert," she says.

Over eleven chapters, hooks rethinks the notions we learn about love from childhood, considering that they have been transmitted from the patriarchy. "There is no aspect of sexuality that has not been studied, discussed, demonstrated. There are introductory courses on every dimension of sexuality, including masturbation, but there are no schools of love. It is assumed that everyone instinctively knows how to love," hooks writes in the book.