ABSTRACT
I have been reading and writing with bell hooks since I came to the realisation that despite all of my proclamations about ethnographic and educational research, writing and education for social justice, the way I was engaging in this practice was not a good enough story for those who I encountered—my friends, my family and all those I loved—and came to be in relation with. My search for a-way to write “in-relation” led me first to her text (1994) Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom and then I was “hooked”. In this chapter I share the lessons I have learnt about writing in-relation with love from bell hooks as an explicitly feminist autoethnographic practice. Remembered rapture: The writer at work (1999a), Wounds of passion: A writing life (1999b), All about love: New visions (2000a), amongst others, are touched upon to show the ways in which hooks’ feminist thinking and writing might press close, so close, and turn us in movement towards feminist autoethnography.
