WordVomit Wednesdays E3: Bessie Head - The African Woman Who Lived Between Worlds (Queer History Month)

from organized chaos (theory) · host Atifa Kelly

this queer history month, we sit with the fierce & quietly radical life of Bessie Head a woman shaped by exile... a mother navigating survival... a writer who carved entire interior worlds out of displacement & doubt through her novels & short stories, Bessie examined power, belonging, race, desire & the fragile architecture of identity her work remains sharp, intimate & unsettling in the best way this episode honours her voice, her contradictions & the legacy she left stitched across African literature the photograph referenced: https://porfinenafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/bessie-head.jpg books referenced: When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), Maru (1971), A Question of Power (1973), The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales (1977)

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