User:Beabeets/Bell hooks/Stormageddon623 Peer Review

Peer Review
Hi,

So sorry this took to long!! The article you've chosen looks very interesting and detailed, very good job with elaborating on what is there! As far as content, I think you've done a great job, there are just some grammar changes you may want to consider to make your voice less personal, as well as a few things to consider rephrasing. Also, is bell hooks typically written with lowercase? If not, I would consider looking into changing the article title.

During her time at Berea College, hooks also founded the bell hooks center along with professor Dr. M. Shadee Malaklou.

Is Dr. Malaklou also at Berea College? I would add "Dr. M Shadee Malaklou, a colleague" or some context like that.

The center was established to provide underrepresented students, especially black and brown, femme, queer, and Appalachian individuals at Berea, a safe space where they can develop their activist expression, education, and work.

This would be a great opportunity for a quotation, stating exactly who they supported.

Bell hooks work and her emphasis on the importance of feminism and love serves as the inspiration and guiding principles of the center and the education it offers.

Be careful here, it reads like an opinion. I would rephrase, or quote from the center website directly.

The center continues to operate today and offers events and programming with an emphasis on radical feminist and anti-racist thought.

Buddhist Influence

''Hooks was first introduced to buddhism in her early college years through beats poetry and after meeting the poet and buddhist Gary Synder. Hooks describes herself as finding buddhism as part of a personal journey in her youth where she was seeking to recenter love and spirituality in her life and configure these concepts into her focus on activism and justice.''

If you want, this would be a great place to quote Hooks herself.

After this initial exposure to buddhism, hook's incorporated it into her Christian upbringing, and this combined combining Christian-Buddhist thought, which influenced her identity, activism, and writing for the remainder of her life.

''Hooks' was drawn to buddhism because of the personal and academic framework it offered her to understand and respond to suffering and discrimination as well as love and connection. She describes the Christian-Buddhist focus on everyday practice as fulfilling the centering and grounding needs of her everyday life.''

Buddhist thought, especially the work of Thích Nhất Hạnh, appears in multiple of hooks' essays, books, and poetry.