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AIN'T I A WOMAN

Started by Shana A, April 01, 2010, 07:17:50 AM

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Shana A

April 01, 2010, 07:17:50 AM
AIN'T I A WOMAN
Submitted by Laverne on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 2:34am

http://lavernecox.com/gender-studies/aint-i-woman

THIS IS A PIECE I WROTE A FEW YEARS AGO LOCATING MY TRANS IDENTITY IN RELATIONSHIP TO MY BLACK WOMANHOOD.  SOMEONE IN THE VH1 CHATROOM WANTED TO HEAR MY THOUGHTS ABOUT BEING A TRANS WOMAN OF COLOR. HERE ARE SOME OF THEM.

"Ain't I a woman.'  This is a phrase that's been popping up in my head a lot lately.  It's a phrase we all know, of course, from the famous Sojourner Truth speech of the same title.  This is a phrase that evokes for me the historic devaluation of black womanhood in America.  Ms. Truth said in 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio:
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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