In Your Face Women

Showing posts with label Hamer. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Hamer. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer spent the 1950's training to be an activist and organizer in the all-Black community of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Th...

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Rebecca Hensley: This is a book project about women we never hear about: women who climbed mountains, scalped their kidnappers, and held off the Roman troops longer than anyone else ever (six months). I'm tired of living in a world where the slang term for being weak is a slang term for a woman's genitals. I'm not asking for respect anymore. I'm giving it. To myself.

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