For hooks, theorizing voiced early as a search for home in a rejecting family

Evidence

Living in child hood without a sense of home, I found a place of sanctuary in “theorizing,” in making sense out of what was happening. … I worked at explaining the hurt and making it go away. Fundamentally, I learned from this experience that theory could be a healing place. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 132 (#instantiates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Theory can function as a healing place for lived pain — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 132; Theorizing offers a provisional home to those without one in their lived family — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 131