Gladys Bentley didn’t push boundaries as much as she obliterated them.
Tag: music
Mozart Had a Sister
Mozart had a sister who played as masterfully as he but Nanneral was married off, a career cut short because Ms. Mozart was a “she” Ros Franklin spent her whole career X-raying DNA but Crick and Watson got the Prize using all her work along the way The French Queen never said that…
To All the Women I’ve Never Had a Chance to Know
For all the inventions that might have made my life better, brighter, or easier but were never made because a woman never got the chance, this is my lament. For all the female comedians I never got to laugh at, all the women authors I’ve never had the chance to read, who were never taught in…
We Can Be Mourners, Just for One Day
I never shared a table with David Bowie. I never shared a bed with him, or a caress, a smile or a conversation, or even a ride on an uptown train. I did not know him. And yet his death touches me. Not in the personal way of a dying parent or a close friend….
Wine and Cheese (Doodles) 