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Love as Liberation: Unpacking bell hooks (with Heather Vickery)
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✍️ This week’s essay:
“Love as the Practice of Freedom” by bell hooks
🎙 This week’s guest:
Heather Vickery is a coach, speaker, podcast host, and joy-bringer. Her work centers around intentional living, courageous leadership, and aligning action with values. Heather brings radical honesty and warmth to everything she does—even when it’s tough love.
Find Heather:
🌐 vickeryandco.com
🎧 Was it Chance?
📷 @vickeryandco
Discussed in this episode:
- What “love as liberation” really means in the context of political and personal resistance
- The difference between kindness and niceness—and why love is often neither
- How to balance boundaries with compassion without playing the “both sides” game
- Love as an ethic, a choice, and a verb—not a passive feeling
- How domination, control, and toxic positivity masquerade as “love”
- Heather’s personal experience with self-love, queerness, and choosing relationships with intention
- Parenting through a feminist love ethic: Holding boundaries as an act of care
- Navigating the guilt of not doing “enough” while doing what’s possible with what you’ve got
- Why white women talking about love must include interrogating privilege and practicing collective accountability
Resources mentioned:
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