Tricia M. Kress is a Professor and Director of the Educational Leadership for Diverse Learning Communities doctoral program at Molloy University in New York.

Robert Lake is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Foundations and Reading at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA.

Nadia Khan-Roopnarine is an assistant professor of education at St. Joseph's University in New York.

Perpetual Anastasia Hayfron is a multidisciplinary humxn, altruistic hedonist and Black Feminist scholar with a ferocious zeal for critical inquiry, holistic humxn welfare and the spiritual liberation of Black people.

Nicolle Session has served public middle school children of New York City for 25 years as a Dance Educator, English Language Arts Educator, Team Leader, Dean, Arts Liaison, and Assistant Principal.

Part I: Love for Life and Learning; 1. Be me with me; 2. With Transgressive Love; 3. Holding Your Spirit in Love; 4. Thinking bell and Talking in hooks: A Reflection; 5. The Radical Open Heart of bell hooks; 6. The struggles of teaching and learning in the margins; 7. Life-Giving; 8. Wisdom In the Water: Understanding Myself Through Loving Connections with Sisters and Elders; 9. A Soul Forever Changed by Your Words; 10. Deep Gratitude for bell's Attunement to Nature; 11. Love, Belonging, and Inclusion; Part II: Love for Resistance and Transformation; 12. I Be Muslim; 13. What do you do when you don't get what you want?; 14. Journey Within as Resistance: Your Dhamma; 15. A Liminal Love Ethic: Love in the In-between; 16. My Dear Sista bell hooks; 17. Dear bell: A Swan Song; 18. Living Love: A Journey Toward Redefining Masculinity; 19. Letter to Gloria; 20. Silence and Quiet; 21. Homemade Love, an Author Study; Part III: Love for the Future; 22. I am a woman, I am a black woman; 23. "All about bell:" A love letter to bell hooks from a Black Woman hooksian scholar; 24. Anything is Possible: Striving for a Healthy Black Masculinity; 25. A Mother's Love: Reflections on Patriarchy and the Future of Boys; 26. Don't Look Back; 27. Reflections on Patriarchy, Christianity, and the Perpetual Virginity of Mary; 28. With Gratitude for Your Insistence of Love; 29. A Daughter's Love, A Mother's Love: Lessons from bell hooks; 30. Finding Hope From Despair; 31. Classroom Quilt: Skin Again Author Study