Music can be a powerful political tool. Janelle has conducted passionating research about blues music by black women to express their gender and sexuality. Listen to her talk about her love for music, research, and vulnerability.
Ordinary Women aims at increasing the #representation of #women in society by interviewing women. Whether we are conscious of it or not, the lack of representation of women in society impacts us all.
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Billie Holiday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday
Lady Sings the Blues, 1956 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Sings_the_Blues_(book)
The United States Vs Billie Holiday, Lee Daniels, 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_United_States_vs._Billie_Holiday
Strange fruit, Billie Holiday https://youtu.be/-DGY9HvChXk?si=wPjmw8uA6xLzedAk
Josephine Baker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker
Gladys Bentley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Bentley
Gladys Bentley, “I Am a Woman Again”, Ebony, August 1952 https://queermusicheritage.com/bentley6.html
Bessie Smith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith
Need a little sugar in my bowl
https://youtu.be/m6WC-XesIJ0?si=4XL3X8oTIDWo7LhL
Ma Rainey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Rainey
Prove it on me blues
https://youtu.be/yRyaUcVfhak?si=BFTEInjJY_y2ltyR
Meghan Thee Stallion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Thee_Stallion
Cardi B
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardi_B
Young M.A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_M.A
Lucille Bogan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Bogan
Ethel Waters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Waters
