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 weeklong residency at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts (http://www.newschool.edu/lang).

This is an excerpt from their full conversation, "A Public Dialogue Between bell hooks and Laverne Cox," available here:    • bell hooks and Laverne Cox in a Publi...  

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