It’s not a typo, bell hooks is actually capitalized this way.

Why? Because what’s important to her is the “substance of the books, not who I am,” she told The Sandspur. Born Gloria Jean Watkins, she adopted her great grandmother’s name to pay tribute to female legacies.

And that’s the legacy she is leaving behind, passing down from those before her. hooks wrote many books about feminism through the eyes of a black woman, which were important contributions to the idea intersectionality and what it is today.

The concept of celebrating black sisterhood was extremely powerful to her, and she ended up founding a group called Sisters of the Yam, a support group for black women going through struggles from daily race issues to more serious issues like addiction.

While bell hooks’ revolutionary ideas began in the early ‘80s, she continues to keep up with the modern feminist movement and how it’s progressing today. With movements like #metoo and the fight for equal wage, women's’ voices are finally being heard.

To hooks, feminism and the empowerment of women are not about money and “running the world” because the world right now is a white patriarchal society. The movement is so much bigger than that.

Instead, she writes, “whether feminist or not, we all need to remember that visionary feminist goal [is] women doing our part to change the world so that freedom and justice, the opportunity to have optimal well-being, can be equally shared by everyone – female and male.”