Today… is the birthday of Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965), the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway – A Raisin in the Sun, in 1959. In many areas Hansberry was ahead of her time. "She was a feminist before the feminist movement. She identified as a lesbian and thought about LGBT organizing before there was a gay rights movement. She was an anti-colonialist before independence had been won in Africa and the Caribbean." In other words, she was intersectional before intersectionality became a thing.
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Cake, please!
Cake, please!
Today… is the birthday of Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965), the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway – A Raisin in the Sun, in 1959. In many areas Hansberry was ahead of her time. "She was a feminist before the feminist movement. She identified as a lesbian and thought about LGBT organizing before there was a gay rights movement. She was an anti-colonialist before independence had been won in Africa and the Caribbean." In other words, she was intersectional before intersectionality became a thing.