![]() Together we will discover the stories of 21 women who were ahead of their time.ĭisclaimer: We do not own the rights to the music played during this broadcast. Join GirlTrek’s Black History Bootcamp – 21 Cosmonauts at to receive specially curated emails with survival tips, speeches + dedicated songs to listen to for each episode. And today we tell the story of Gladys, because it is spectacular and because it serves as inspiration for those who will come after her to plant their own flags in planets yet discovered. Here, amongst a tribe of women who come bearing our own scars, we make space for every story. She wouldn't even nurse me and my grandmother had to raise me for 6 months on a bottle before they could. 'When they told my mother she had given birth to a girl, she refused to touch me. Bentley always felt rejected and unwanted given her mother’s desire to have a boy. Not always deemed worthy to be told if not pristine or above reproach. Bentley was the oldest of four children and her relationship with her mother growing up wasn’t all sunshine and roses. Not always redeemable to those who live in the black and white. ![]() A blues singer who got her start singing at rent parties, she was a woman brave enough to love and live as she wanted – until the politics of the time and a brutal system of oppression, that has denied so many of us the opportunity to live in our truth, forced her back into the margins. ![]() A darling of the Harlem Renaissance, Gladys Bentley was once the richest Black woman in America. An open lesbian, a cross-dressing performer whose raunchy act and lewd lyrics were both the talk of the town and the hottest ticket around. was seducing women out of their Fashion Nova, and Meg made that congressman clutch his pearls over WAP, there was Gladys Bentley.
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