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Beyonce claims the title for feminist for herself, in the interview of Lean In (cite) directed by____. She believes in equality for men and women is the modern-day feminist. However, bell hooks, a feminist scholar, believes that Beyonce is a “anti-feminist terrorist.” In her panelist with many fellow feminists, Janet Mock, a trans advocate, Shola Lynch a filmmaker and author Marci Blackman in New York School on wednesday May 7th, 2014, the conversation titled “Are You Still a Slave '' discussed women of color in social media. Bell hooks claimed that Beyonce doesn’t have control over her own self-image in the media, and her highly sexualized outfits would make young girls have the wrong opinion on what feminism is. Hooks thinks that beyonce is using her power and fame in the media to display a patriarchal system that is highly veiled as a feminist view. Mock argues with bell’s critique, and says that “femme” black female bodies should still have a space in the feminist movement of black bodies, and that the intersectionality should be a space that is further discussed. Intersectionality means the minority of a gender and minority of a colored person, therefore referring to women of color, unable to fit into either category of racialization or gendered assumptions.

Hooks claimed that beyonce doesn’t have power over her own imagery, and that the TIME magazine cover featuring Beyonce wearing underwear without pants on is something that is too highly sexualized for being a feminist.

Beyonce has borrowed lyrics from Chimanmanda ngozi adichi’s TedTalk “***Flawless” as how women should be feminists.

Bell hooks have also critiqued Beyonce's album of ‘lemonade’ and considered her work to be ‘fantasy feminism’. She says that bey sexualizes the violence displayed by black female bodies, and that the black female bodies are becoming a part of the capitalist commodity that is sold to the world. In bell hooks mind, she thinks that although the black female bodies are considered in the view of beauty and power, that it is useless in the grand scheme of the patriarchy system. Healthy self-esteem is something that is better cultivated for the black female body.