Day 5 - Andrea Jenkins. The first openly transgender woman elected to public office (in 2017). She& #39;s a policy aide, writer, performance artist, poet and activist. Vice President of the Minneapolis City Council for Ward 8. You can read her words here: https://www.glamour.com/story/andrea-jenkins-george-floyd-minneapolis-essay">https://www.glamour.com/story/and...
Okay, despite my Twitter break, I& #39;m going to keep posting these. Because they aren& #39;t about me. But I don& #39;t have Twitter on my phone at the moment. So it& #39;ll just be a post-and-run.
Day 8: Audre Lorde. She described herself as "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” She was an activist, librarian, and feminist. You can read her poem "Power" here. It was written in 1978, but it could have been written this year. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53918/power-56d233adafeb3">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/539...
Day 9: Gladys Bentley. She was an openly lesbian blues singer, pianist, and entertainer. During the 1930s she performed at Harlem& #39;s Ubangi Club, she wore men& #39;s clothes, backed by a chorus of drag queens, and sang raunchy lyrics to popular songs of the day.
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