Women’s Space

Eartha Kitt died on Christmas day at the age of 81 of colon cancer. She was an amazing woman.  She came into the world as the result of rape.  A white South Carolina plantation owner raped her Cherokee/black mother who picked cotton on his plantation. Her mother’s rapist immediately disavowed her.  Desperately poor, her [...]

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I came across the following exchange in a comments thread elsewhere on the blogosphere, and I responded to it there, but it’s an important enough issue, I believe, that I wanted to devote a blog post to it.  I am conflicted about linking to it because I don’t want to put the commenters on the spot in [...]

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I’ve been pleasantly surprised to hear how many of you have written my name in on your ballot at the polls!  THANK YOU!  And more of you still can, in my area we have until 8 p.m. this evening.  I vow to live up to my supporters’ votes of confidence in the years to come. 
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These photos and this post are for and dedicated to my children, my grandchildren, my ex-husband of 19 years, my late first husband, to Mother Dear and Aunt Pat of New Orleans, Ninth Ward, when they were alive, to Aunt Sophie and Uncle Charlie of Baltimore, Maryland, when they were alive, to all of our scattered [...]

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