Leading public intellectual bell hooks engages in inspiring dialogue with Laverne Cox, critically acclaimed actress and the first trans woman of color to have a leading role on television. What are the politics of transgender women? What exactly does contemporary feminism look like? These questions inform their provocative conversation, part of bell hook’s week-long residency at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts (http://www.newschool.edu/lang) at The New School.

This is an excerpt from their full conversation, “A Public Dialogue Between bell hooks and Laverne Cox,” available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oMmZIJijgY

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October 7, 2014 – The Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street

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