It was a place of healing because she was able to recognize the pain, reflect upon the hurt and where it came from in order to heal from it. By using this "lived experience of critical thinking" she finds a "place of sanctuary in theorizing" (61). ex: hooks uses her childhood experience to understand what was happening around her. hooks also encourages to theorize our lived realities to make sense of the world that we live in so we can learn to be critical of it, challenge it, and create new ways of thinking and being. In theorizing our lived realities, hooks affirms, that it is a form of healing and liberatory practice in which we should seek to undertake within hegemonic feminism theory. hooks links theory and her personal experiences to reach a broader audience that feminism theory in academia dismisses. Theory can be healing, liberatory and revolutionary when we ask that is do so and direct our theorizing towards this end.Such experience the bond between the two more evident - an ultimately reciprocal process wherein one enables the other. Theory and personal experience: when our lived experience of theorizing is fundamentally linked to processes of self-recovery, of collective liberation, no gap exists between theory and practice.
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