Teach Me How to Love

Why is it seemingly so difficult to sustain a loving connection within a romantic relationship? Are women more emotionally equipped to “love” than men? Is the idea of “falling in love” a crippling cultural myth, and love more accurately recognized as a choice?

If we accept the idea that love is an “intentional act,” how does this impact the way we love?

In her national bestseller, all about love, writer, visionary, cultural critic and feminist theorist, bell hooks, both asks and answers these questions as she offers us a breathtaking critique on commonly held definitions and practices of love.

In Teach Me How to Love, a seven-week-long discussion group of hooks’s writings on love, courageous men and women of color convene to confront our beliefs about and practices of love.

We’ll establish a liberated zone where participants feel free to speak their truths, and we’ll interrogate long held notions of love—notions defined and supported by dominant capitalist patriarchal culture.

We’ll also examine how internalized racial oppression impacts our identities and thus our capacity to love.

By understanding how we often mistake “feelings” for love and power relationships for loving relationships, we position ourselves for healing—for a new vision of what love is and how we can both love and be loved.

Class size is limited to 25 and pre-registration is required. Please bring all about love to the first class

Teresa Ann Willis is an educator and an anti-racist organizer committed to healing, to spiritual growth and to being and knowing love.