I became familiar with the story of Recy Taylor in my research efforts for a project I am assembling on the black female form and sexual assault. The late Miss Taylor was raped physically by six white men, but also raped by a system who failed to punish her attackers who after violating her continued…
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Tales of Twenty-Seven: The Shared Experience of Black Female Pain
“Capture, imprisonment, is the closest to being dead that one is likely to experience in this life.” —George L. Jackson By twenty-seven, Saartje Baartman had already transitioned— her brain and genitals jarred by a white scientist George Curvier praised for his “formal” distinction between white and black women. Baartman had only lived to see twenty-five…
