The values of DU call us to study, reflect, and be in community with one another.  This workshop will provide an opportunity for DU faculty and staff to read a brief article by bell hooks, author, professor, feminist and social activist who passed recently.  Her writing “shaped perspectives on the intersectionality of race, capitalism and gender” during her distinguished career. Please come to the session having read this article and prepared for small group discussions. We will reflect on these and other questions during our time together: 1 “Love is as love does. Love is an act of will-namely both an intention and an action” (Peck). How is love an intention and an action in our work and action?  2 How did bell hooks practice loving through critical consciousness, community, and service? How do we begin “the practice of loving’? What does this type of community look like at Dominican?  3 Bell hooks says “we not only remain attached to the status quo but act in complicity with it...