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Showing posts with label Smith (Bessie). Show all posts

Showing posts with label Smith (Bessie). Show all posts

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Bessie Smith

When Bessie Smith was orphaned at the age of nine in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the early 1900's, she and her seven brothers and sis...

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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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