#Bessie Buchanan

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When legendary performer Josephine Baker and her party were refused food service at the Stork Club on October 16, 1951, the NAACP organized a picket line in front of the chic night spot. Seen on October 22 are Bessie Buchanan, Baker's personal secretary; Laura Z. Hobson, author of "Gentleman's Agreement, a novel about anti-Semitism; and Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP.

Photo: Marty Lederhandler for the AP

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Vintage Magazine - Sepia (Oct1960)

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Dunn Family History

This post delves into the history of the Dunn family across several generations, highlighting their roles as farmers, business owners, and community members in Missouri.

By DEBORA RAGLAND BUERKWriter, Editor, and Sometimes Family Historian My Family History & the Dunns Debora Ann “Dunn” Ragland My Grandmother’s name was Margie Violet Dunn. Her parents were C.C. Dunn and Bessie Lola. Here’s what I know about the Dunn Family. Counter clockwise from upper right: Margie Violet Dunn, my grandmother. Anna Taylor, my second great-grandmother. Peggy Ann Scoles, my…

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Thursday edits for angels surrounded by angels Shan'ann Cathryn Rzucek and Bella&Nico and CeCe, Candela Sol Rodriguez, Alyssa Jane West, Emma Nicole Speer, Avielle Richman, Ava Jordan Wood, Leiliana Wright, Saffie-Rose Brenda Roussos, Lily Peters, Olivia Pratt Korbel, Sara Sharif, Charlotte Figi, Jersey Dianne Bridgeman, Lucy Morgan, Mercedes Losoya, Norah Lee Howard, Sloan Mattingly, Audrii Cunningham, Judith Barsi and Heather O'Rourke, Makenna Lee Elrod Seiler, Eliahna Torres, Jackie Cazares, Mary E. Sullivan, Olivia Grace Thompson, Lester Stillwell, Alexis Brianne “Lexi” Stempien, Blake Lee Stafford, Emma Grace Stacks, Kelly Doyle Sparks, Christy Lea Sparks, Kelsey Shelton Smith-Briggs, Michael Daniel Smith, Alexander Tyler “Alex” Smith, Laura Ashley Skinner, James Asa Rudder, Ashley Nicole Romer, Jennifer Jailene Rodriguez, Angel Divine Randall, Miakailah Renee Ramsey-Franklin, JonBenét Ramsey, Kelli Shay Powell, Allyceea Mabel Brynne Ennis, Janet Carol Pierick, Patricia Sue Phillips, Pete Peterson I, Kaitlyn Nikol Pukatsch Parsons, Cheyenne Rose “Chey Chey” Newton, Emanuel Wesley Murray Jr., Maud H. Munn, Doris Denise Milner, Bruce Edward Miller, Ruby Miller, Lucille Miller, Gwenyth Marie McWethy, Natallie Elizabeth McNelly, Minnie E. McKendrick, Bradley Gene McGee, Joanne Ena Lynn, Jessica Marie Lunsford, Brittani Lynn LaFollette, Eva Gladys “Gladys” Kincaid, Elisa Izquierdo, James Alan Ray Hubbard, Catherine Violet Hubbard, Janessa Micheala “Nessie” Horner, Nina Viktoria “Tori” Bashenova Hilt, Angela Dawn Harter, Michelle Heather Guse, Lori Lee Farmer, Anna Katherine Grudziecke, Edith Clare “Edie” Grierson, Aiyana Emily Gauvin, Thomas Edwards Gallagher, Gerald Alfred Gaddy, Annie L Foster, Leah Foster Whitacre, Julie Alliot, Rowan Damia Ford, Kathy Fiscus, Mary Ruth Davis, Ettie E. Davis, Joan Angela D'Alessandro, Tessara Kate “Tessa” Crespi, Samantha Joy “Sammie” Crespi, Nina Craigmiles, Lacy Cheyenne Cook, Eleanor Emily Cook, Edward Parsons Cook, Dakoda James Clapper, Nevaeh Amyah Buchanan, Hayley Renae Reasor Briggs, Noelle Elizabeth Braun, Skylar Mark Brady, Edna Louise Blank, Celeste Elizabeth Berg, Teri Earlene Bender, Katherine Marie “Kathy” Beets, Barbara Ann Barnes, Bessie Barker, Baylee Almon, Marivel Mercedez Alvarez, Jessica Anders, Elli Grace Perez-Speer, Adilynn Holmes Speer, Anniston Noel Speer, Ciara Nicole Floyd, Nelani Ciara Koefer, Jade Nicole Simmons, Elizabeth Ann Byrd, Story Wren Worth, Abigail Elizabeth “Abby” Fedosoff, Kezia Mason, Isabella Sara “Bella” Tennant, Avery Lana Linda Brown, Sadako Sasaki, Sarah McKayla Brooks, Jessica Scatterson,Jessica Marie Bock, Layla Salazar, Emma Catherine Grace Thompson,

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Those dang Packards in Missouri

From "Homer Badman," s6, ep 9 of the Simpsons.

Missouri, as it turns out, is Packed with Packards. As we wrote about on this blog before, they established their roots within the state. After all, there is a Packard cemetery in Clinton County, Missouri. In order to follow up on this, I looked at a number of varying sources.

Family Search as a number of databases on the state of Missouri. Within their “Missouri, Death Records, 1834-1910” collection there were 66 results for the surname of Packard. As for their “Missouri, Birth Records, 1847-1910” collection there were 32 results for the surname. Then within their “Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002” there were 1,208 results for the surname and within their “Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920” collection there were 1,290 results. As for the Missouri Archives, there are 56 results for the Packard surname in their “Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1966” database.

Results from this index for the Packards are above.

Note: This was originally posted on May 11, 2018 on the main Packed with Packards WordPress blog (it can also be found on the Wayback Machine here). My research is still ongoing, so some conclusions in this piece may change in the future.

Beyond this, a listing of deaths in Missouri listed two Packards: Sarah Isabell dying in 1952 and John Henry dying at an unknown date. Obituaries from the website of Mackley Genealogy also reprinted the obit of a Missouri Packard, which is as follows:

Further research showed no results for the Packards here, here, or here. Even so, there may be results within this collection and are definitely ones here.

Chapman Brothers's 1893 book, Portrait and Biographical Record of Buchanan and Clinton Counties, Missouri: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States has a bit about the Packards here and there. The book notes that:

 A Joseph L. Packard, living in St. Joseph Mo was born in 1836 in Springfield, MA, went into the railroad business and married a woman named Leslie Colt on Dec 23, 1875 (p. 319)

A C.E. (Charles Edward undoubtedly) Packard is the cashier of the farmers bank in Cameron, Missouri was born in Hampshire, Massachusetts on Mar 13, 1838, spending his boyhood on a farm there before becoming a teacher in Ohio, coming to Missouri to work as a telegraph operator and marrying a woman named Araminta Utter in 1867. It notes that C.E. and Araminta had seven children, six of which are living: William, Clark, Eva, Martha, Bessie, and Laura (p. 390, 393). I am glad he has an entry in this book since his one of my ancestors, through my Packard lineage! Later a company named "C.E. Packard & Co" is mentioned, perhaps a company he once created (p. 459)

The same goes for the National Historical Company's 1881 book, The History of Clinton County, Missouri: Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Clinton County in the Late War, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Clinton County, Etc., Etc. This book has sixteen results for the name Packard. Some pages, like page 257, talk about a company run by one R.C. (Russell Clifford likely) Packard whereas others, like page 108, talk about an O.C. (Ossmus Chalmer) Packard born in Hampshire Co, Massachusetts in 1835 becoming a carpenter, living in Mendota, Illinois  then coming to Cameron, Missouri, becoming a dairy farmer and marrying a woman named Sophia Dean on Apr 2, 1863. Both R.C. and O.C. are those from my Packard family lineage. Another person from that lineage profiled in the book is C.E. (Charles E.) Packard, on the following page (109), basically saying the same as what was noted in the 1892 Chapman Brothers Book described earlier in this article. Additionally, there are mentions of "C.E. Packard & Co" (p 264), calling C.E. a capitalist who lives in a "brick business home" (p 284, 286), a cemetery laid out by Charles Packard a mile-and-half southeast of Cameron, MO (the Packard Cemetery perhaps?, p 251), Charles as a railroad man (p 337), the first two-story residence constructed on South Walnut Street by R.C. Packard in 1866 (p 256), E.C. Packard as a secretary in the Cameron chapter of the Grange (p 277), and Charles E. Packard the member of the First Congregational Church in Cameron starting in 1865 (p 265-266). Also a Packard for the Grange ran to be a representative in Clinton County MO (p 406), a Mary Packard was mentioned as marrying a O.B. Lingle in 1866 (p 100), and a C.I (Charles I) ford, a dairyman and farmer was noted as marrying Miss Martha Packard (in my Packard lineage) in December 1843 and fathering eleven children with her (p 87).

That's all on the Packards in Missouri.  Look forward to next week's post determining if Samuel was a constable or a tavern keeper, and if those family genealogies saying this are rotten liars or not!

© 2018-2022 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

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Women’s History Month

Fly, Bessie, Fly 

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An inspiring biography of Bessie Coleman explores the life of the first black woman to earn a pilot's license, from her childhood in Texas to her aviation studies in France, where she ultimately achieved her goal of flying a plane.

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@calamitys-child​ There are a few Texan Quincey Morris’s!

Let’s see, now -

1. Quincey Morris, born c. 1887, daughter of Alice Davis, of Coleman Texas. First name probably Mary, rarely used. Married Marion Morris from Missouri, a gin stand man, and had at least 6 kids - sons, Newton Jasper, Elma Saton, Howard Chester, and Marion jr. - and daughters, Mary Alice and Capitola Katie - and two possible adoptees/fosters, Lloyd Edwards and Alice Charline Bryant, living with them on the 1920 census.

2. Quincey Brown Morris, born c. 1860. A farmer in Winnsboro Texas. Married to Bessie (born c. 1873), with at least 6 kids as of the 1920 census - sons Nathan, “QB”, and Munson - and daughters, Emma/Evelyn, Ina, Ava and Louise. He died in September of that year - and here is a photo courtesy of his findagrave listing -

On his gravestone is written - “Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace.”

3. Quincey Lee Morris, age 2 months on the 1900 census of Wood County. Son of John Earl Morris and Ada Princess Morris nee Goolsby, grandson of Drusilla Catherine Morris nee Harkey. He had 7 siblings (Elmira, Ewell, Alvoid, Johnnie, Locie, Mildred and Rowena), married Mattie Lou Buchanan and had 2 children (James and Doris). His father was a farmer, and he followed that - before in 1941 joining up with the US army to become a quartermaster, which is what is on his gravestone. He had brown hair, brown eyes and was 5 ft 6, with a light complexion.

That one was around after Dracula was published - in fact all of them were! I wonder if they knew about the character that shared their name, and what they thought!

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Whumptober 2020 day 3: forced to his knees

Whoa Bessie, during James’s imprisonment overseas

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The first thing they do when they get him to the big house with the mud walls remove his blindfold.  Then they force him to his knees with the barrel of a gun pressed between his shoulder blades.  James is so exhausted he wants to fall flat on his face, but instead he remains stock still, waiting to be ordered to do the next thing.  Or maybe to be killed.

One of the captors, the big one who looks like a thug, grabs James by the hair, which has outgrown its army crew cut, and yanks his head back.  He says something in Pashto that James doesn’t understand, but he knows the gist.  They want intel.  Plans.  Something.  

James answers with name, rank, and serial number.  The big guy squints at him, lets go of his hair, then slaps James across the face.  It smarts, and James is so weak that it’s only the gun in his back that keeps him from toppling over.  

The captor laughs, then asks the same thing again.  

James actually listens this time, searching for English cognates, or anything he recognizes from high school Spanish, or the introductory Arabic the military offered before he was deployed.  He’s still got nothing.

“James Buchanan Barnes.  Sergeant.  02134--” James tries again, but the pistol prodding him cocks with a loud click, and he shuts up.

The man before him puts on an angry face.  He repeats his question a third time, this time in a menacing growl.  He tucks his double chin and looks daggers at James.

“I’m sorry.  I don’t know.”  James shakes his aching head.

The thuggish captor narrows his eyes.  Then he lifts them above James’s head and whispers, “Go.”

James’s heart flutters as he feels the gun move behind his back.  This is it, he thinks.  He’s dead for sure. 

A painful second passes, no longer than a heartbeat, then the gun moves again and goes off.  James still feels the shadow of its tip pressing against him, even as sunlight spills through the fresh bullet hole in the ceiling.    

[theherstorybuff]

Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker (1906 - 1975), born Freda Josephine McDonald, was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother was a washerwoman and her father abandoned the family soon after Josephine's birth. Her mother remarried soon after and had several more children. To help her large family make ends meet, Josephine began working at age eight, babysitting and cleaning houses for wealthy white families, where she experienced sexual and physical abuse. She soon chose homelessness and living on the streets over the suffering she faced in service.

At just 13 she was briefly married and by 15, she began working in the performing arts. Eventually she landed a chorus role in the Broadway musical, Shuffle Along, which influenced her decision to move to New York City to pursue her career. She also married Willie Baker around this time, and kept his name after their divorce a few years later.

In 1925, Josephine traveled to Paris, where she performed in La Revue Nègre at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. The following year, Josephine performed La Folie du Jour at the Folies Bergère music hall wearing a now infamous skirt made from 16 bananas. The performance rocketed Josephine to fame, quickly making her one of the most popular and highly paid performers in Europe. Capitalizing on this success, she sang professionally for the first time in 1930 and years later landed a few film roles as a singer.

The money she earned from performances enabled her to purchase an estate in Southwest France called Les Milandes and paid to move her family there from St. Louis. In 1936, after so much success in France, she returned to the US to perform in the Ziegfeld Follies. Unfortunately, she was met with so much general hostility and racism that she quickly returned to France. Upon returning, she married a French industrialist and obtained French citizenship.

Josephine's son later shared that his mother had many relationships with women throughout her life, including affairs with Colette, Clara Smith, Bessie A. Buchanan, and Ada "Bricktop" Smith. Another famous alleged lover of hers was Frida Kahlo. Out of preservation of her career, Josephine vehemently denied her bisexuality to the point of homophobia.

When WWII began, Josephine Baker worked for the Red Cross during the occupation of France. She also entertained troops in Africa and the Middle East as a part of the Free French forces. Most critically, though, was her service as an agent of the French Resistance. She sometimes even smuggled messages hidden in her sheet music and underwear. At the war's end, Josephine was presented with both the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honour with the rosette of Resistance, two of France's highest military honors. Afterwards, she spent most of her time at Les Milandes with her family. In 1947, she married a French orchestra leader and a few years later began to adopt babies from around the world. She adopted 12 children of different ethnic backgrounds, an unprecedented act at the time. 

During the 1950s, she began traveling back to the United States frequently to lend her support to the civil rights movement. Her refusal to perform for segregated audiences helped to integrate live entertainment in Las Vegas. She was the only woman to speak at 1963's March on Washington. Throughout her time performing in the US she was outspoken on the desegregation of her audiences.

After unsubstantiated accusations of communism, her work visa was revoked, forcing her to cancel her engagements and return to France. In April 1975, she performed the first in a series of performances celebrating the 50th anniversary of her French debut. Just days later, she died in her sleep of a cerebral hemorrhage. On the day of her funeral, more than 20,000 people lined the streets of Paris. She was the first American woman buried in France with military honors.

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Married to a Murderer

Married (before/during) Murders:

Aileen Wuornos - married to 69 year old Lewis Gratz Fell, annulled after nine weeks

Albert DeSalvo - married to Irmgard Beck in Frankfurt, had two children, one disabled

Dennis Rader - married to Paula Dietz (1971-2005), had two kids, later divorced

John Wayne Gacy - a closet homosexual, married to Carole Hoff (1972-1976)

H H Holmes - bigamously married three times; Clara Lovering (1876-96), Myrta Belknap (1887-96) and Georgiana Yoke (1894-96), until his execution on 7th May 1896

Albert Fish - paedophile, child rapist & murderer, married to Estella Wilcox (1898-1917) and together had six children: Albert, Anna, Gertrude, Eugene, John and Henry Fish.

Janie Lou Gibbs - poisoned her husband Charles Gibbs, their three sons and grandson

Judy Buenoano - murdered husband James Goodyear and her son Michael, attempted to murder of her fiancé John Gentry and murdered her boyfriend Bobby Joe Morris

Kristen Gilbert - married to Glenn Gilbert (1988-95) with two sons

Dorothea Puente - married to soldier Fred McFaul (1945-48), Swede Axel Johanson (1952-66), Roberto Puente (1966-68) and Pedro Montalvo (1976)

Velma Barfield - married to Thomas Burke (1949-69) until his death and Jennings Barfield (1970-71) until his death, both committed by Velma Barfield

Gary Ridgway - married three times; Claudia Kraig Barrows (1970-72), Marcia Lorene Brown (1973-81) and Judith Lorraine Lynch (1988-2002), only Lynch was married to Ridgway during his 16 year killing spree

Randall Woodfield - married three times, once whilst in prison to Jennifer Lyn Coria

Donald Henry Gaskins - married five times, one who was 13 years old, has two children

John Allen Muhammad - married and divorced twice, once to Mildred Muhammad

Arthur Shawcross - married four times; to Sarah Chatterton with one son, Linda Neary, Penny Sherbino and had an affair with Clara D. Neal

Glen Edward Rogers - married Deborah Ann Nix aged 14 years old (1978-83)

Charles Manson - married and divorced twice to Rosalie Willis (1955-58) and Leona Stevens (1959-63)

John Reginald Christie - married to Ethel Simpson (1920-52), who he murdered

John George Haigh - married to Beatrice 'Betty' Hamer (1934), annulled, with one child who was given up for adoption

Donald Neilson - married to Irene Tate with one daughter Kathryn, jailed as an accessory

Fred West - married to Catherine “Rena” Costello (1962-71)

Harold Shipman - married to Primrose Shipman (1966-2004, his death)

Peter Sutcliffe - married to Sonia Szurma in 1974, separated in 1982, divorced in 1994

Anthony Hardy - married to Judith Dwight (1972-86) with four kids, all prior to murders

Colin Ireland - married twice to paraplegic athlete Virginia Zammit (1982-87) and Janet Young (1989-91) but claimed he "pretended to be gay" to lure his homosexual victims in

Levi Bellfield - unmarried but fathered five children with three women, the final three children with Emma Mills (1995-2004)

Raymond Morris - married twice, second wife was called Carol Morris

George Joseph Smith - married bigamously seven times between 1908 and 1914; Caroline Beatrice Thornhill, Florence Wilson, Edith Peglar, Sarah Freeman, Bessie Munday, Alice Burnham and Alice Reid, two of whom he murdered... to name but a few

Peter Tobin - married and divorced three times; Margaret Mountney / MacKintosh (1969-71), Sylvia Jefferies (1973-76) and Cathy Wilson (1989-93)

Steve Wright - married Angela O'Donovan (1978-87) and Diane Cassell/Cole (1987-88)

Married (after) Murders/Crimes

Richard Ramirez - married in prison to Doreen Lioy, up to his death (1996-2013)

Ted Bundy - engaged to Diane Edwards known as Stephanie Brooks in 1973, and later married Carole Ann Boone whilst on trial and had a daughter with him

Arthur Shawcross - Clara D. Neal who he later married whilst in prison for murder

Henry Lee Lucas  - married Betty Crawford after his conviction for kidnapping three girls

Charles Manson - engaged in prison to Afton Elaine "Star" Burton, never married

Myra Hindley - engaged to Ronnie Sinclair on her 17th birthday for six months

Killers Couples

Ray & Faye Copeland - the killer couple of Missouri (1940-93)

Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka - "The Ken & Barbie Killers"

Ray Fernandez & Martha Beck - "The Lonely Hearts Killers"

Carol M. Bundy & Doug Clark - "The Sunset Strip Killers"

Cynthia Coffman & James Gregory Marlow - another killer couple

David Ray Parker "The ToyBox Killer" & his girlfriend / accomplice Cindy Lee Hendy

Ian Brady & Myra Hindley - "The Moors Murderers"

David and Catherine Birnie – “The Moorhouse Murderers”

Fred West & Rose West - "The Gloucester Killers"​

Single / Dated Only: (or unmarried owing to a lack of equal rights for gay couples)

Dennis NIlsen - single, homosexual, lived with David "Twinkle" Gallichan

David Berkowitz - single, no wives or known girlfriends

Edmund Kemper - single, troubled upbringing, unable to maintain a normal relationship, but was briefly engaged to a 16-year-old Turlock High School student

Jeffrey Dahmer - single, a homosexual loner, one brief relationship with a boy at school

Joel Rifkin - single, with learning difficulties, no known girlfriends

Ed Gein - single, no girlfriends, his only true love was his mother

Ted Kaczynski - single, but "dated" Joy Richards whilst in prison (1998-2006)

Rodney Alcala - dated Beth Kelleher for a few months before his arrest in 1979

Robert Pickton - habitual user/murderer of prostitutes, he once dated Connie Anderson

Ronald Dominique - single, homosexual serial killer, no known boyfriends or partners

Larry Eyler - single, homosexual serial killer, no known boyfriends or partners

Dean Arnold Corll - a homosexual "relationship" with 12 year old David Brooks

Lee Boyd Malvo - single, a few girlfriends, once was referred in the press as "Kaitlin"

Orville Lynn Majors - unmarried, single

Herbert Mullin - had a steady girlfriend but expressed worries to her that he was gay

Richard Chase - single, hospitalised, no known girlfriends

Graham Young - single, no known girlfriends, convicted / hospitalised

Michael Lupo - homosexual, claimed to have had over 3000 lovers

Patrick MacKay - single, institutionalised from his early teens

Robert Maudsley - single, rent-boy / drug-addict, sexually-abused and incarcerated

Robert Black - single, occasional girlfriends, nothing long-term

Kenneth Erskine - unknown

Steven Grieveson - unknown

Stephen Griffiths - dated Kathy Hancock for 12 months, stalked her for 10 years

Trevor Hardy - his partner Sheilagh Farrow provided his alibi, which meant he was released from prison, and went on to murder Sharon Mosoph

Stephen Port - homosexual, numerous former boyfriends but names unknown

Robert Napper - Single, sexually-abused, unknown of any long-term relationships​

Beverley Allitt - boyfriend Stephen Biggs, the only real love in her life

Source Michael J Buchanan-Dunne

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Roy Fox

The fourth edition of Zis. Boom. Bah. is entitled . . . The Guilty Generation

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[queerasfact]

Josephine Baker and Frida Kahlo: did they actually have sex?

The short answer, sadly, is no.

(This photo shows that Joe and Frida did meet, in Paris 1939. But it well may be that that’s all they did.)

The long answer is this:

Researching our episode on jazz-age performer, Civil Rights activist, and World War 2 spy, Josephine Baker, I kept coming across the rumour that Josephine had slept with bisexual Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. When someone did genuinely drive around Vienna in an ostrich-driven cart, dance on stage wearing nothing but bananas, and smuggle sensitive information out of war-time France pinned to her underwear, it can be difficult to discern fact from rumour. But I was determined to chase down a primary source for this rumour and prove it true.

The more I chased the story down, however, the less substantial evidence I found.

False and poorly researched history is definitely a pet peeve of mine, so let’s take a look at what information there is:

I started with a quick google of “Josephine Baker” “Frida Kahlo”, assuming the source would be easy to find. There are many articles circulating on the internet about Frida and Josephine, but most of them have no citations, or simply cite each other in an endless loop. When they do lead you to other sources, they are usually biographies of the women individually, with no mention of them having met.

Eventually, I found reference in this article to a different source: the author talks about watching the 2002 film Frida, saying “the film Frida included their affair” and backs this up with the comment that “Josephine's son has vouched that his mother had multiple affairs with women.”

Josephine’s son, Jean-Claude Baker, is the author of Josephine: The Hungry Heart. And lo and behold! the book did talk about Josephine having affairs with women, backed up by interviews Jean-Claude had conducted with those who knew her. But nowhere in the entire 533 pages does Jean-Claude mention Frida.

As for the film Frida, it does indeed depict Frida and Josephine in a relationship. But it is not, to be clear, a historic documentary, but a biopic drama. Happily though, I discovered that it is a based on another biography -  Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Harrera.

But does Harrera’s biography make any mention of Josephine? No. No, it does not. None at all.

All is not yet lost. There were many articles, listicles, and other podcasts still telling this story. They must be getting it from somewhere, right? But when one of them finally gave me a list of sources for further reading, all it led me to was several online biographies of Josephine and Frida, none of which mention the women meeting, let alone having a relationship. Except for one: Wikipedia.

Wikipedia – which I am going to edit as soon as I’ve posted this – tells us that “…Jean-Claude Baker described his mother as bisexual, having had relationships with men and women, including the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.” The citation it gives for this statement is confusingly not Jean-Claude at all, but a book by Marjorie Garber titled Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life.

Garber’s book does talk about both Frida and Josephine! Good news, but not good enough. She never mentions them conjunction, and definitely never having sex. The specific page referenced on Wikipedia talks about Josephine, but makes no mention of Frida at all.

One final try – I ventured into the Wayback Machine, to find out if this citation had always been wrong. As it turned out, before Garber, it used to direct you to ... Harrera’s biography. Which as we already know, doesn’t mention Josephine, let alone a relationship between the two women.

At this point, I gave up. (If you haven’t given up, and have any concrete evidence that this supposed relationship did take place, please shoot us an ask!) There was simply no primary evidence - in fact, no evidence at all, beyond the fact that they met, to support this oft-repeated claim.

As a person who likes to hear fun stories about queer historical figures, I am sad. As a historian, I am disappointed – it would be a good story if Josephine and Frida had slept together, but the fact that we have so willingly let this trick us into believing that they did without further evidence is worrying. To be good historians, we need to question what we read, check our sources, and chase things up. As queer historians, these are the tools that we use to uncover the queer people who have been hidden from our history. If we can’t read critically, we have no choice to accept the history the society has given us.

In conclusion, Josephine and Frida probably never had sex. But don’t lose hope! There are plentiful accounts of her having relationships with both women and men – many of them found in Jean-Claude Baker’s biography. And the women she probably did sleep with are far from boring. The list includes:

Clara Smith, a successful blues singer who recorded over 100 songs and worked with Louis Armstrong

Dancer and violinist Mildred Smallwood, the first African-American woman to appear in the American Dance magazine

Bessie Buchanan (née Allison), the first African-American woman to have a seat in the New York State Legislature

Ada “Bricktop” Smith, a club-owner so famous and influential in jazz-age Paris that F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "My greatest claim to fame is that I met Bricktop before Cole Porter did."

Colette, a scandalous bisexual writer and performer, who almost caused a riot by kissing her female lover on-stage at the Moulin Rouge

Check out our podcast for a complete account of Josephine’s fascinating life and her many lovers. 

[realretroroger]

Soundtrack For The Sunday Slog

Windows Media Player picks the tunes, and pumps them through my old Crosley radio, to soothe the savage beast slaving away on a stormy Sunday afternoon in the home studio. Today’s forecast calls for Harlem Hamfats, Riders In the Sky, and Twelve Clouds of Joy.  Here’s the playlist:

Please Help Me I’m Falling -- Lila McCann

Ninety Nine -- Sonny Boy Williamson

Blues Don’t Bother Me -- David Maxwell

All The Jive Is Gone -- Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy

Let Us Now Praise Gabby Hayes -- Riders In The Sky

Mojo Hand -- Lightnin’ Hopkins

There Was A Time -- The Ikettes

Pretend It’s Okay -- Buddy Blue

Shake, Rattle And Roll -- Big Joe Turner

I Shoulda Been Thinkin’ Instead Of Drinkin’ -- Bob Merrill & Cootie Williams

Black And Tan Fantasy -- Duke Ellington

Jack The Ripper -- Roy Buchanan

She Showed It All -- Napoleon Fletcher & Roosevelt Sykes

Dig Myself A Hole -- Robert Lockwood Jr.

Cowboy Night Herd Song -- Gene Autry

Too Late -- Guitar Shorty

Why Get Up -- Fabulous Thunderbords

Mr. Bad Luck -- Oscar Jordan

Stoned -- Wardell Gray Quartet

Big Iron -- Marty Robbins

Don’t Answer The Door -- B.B.King

Money -- Legendary Blues Band

Shake Your Hips -- Billy Boy Arnold

32-20 Blues -- Robert Johnson

The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was A Married Man -- Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright

 The Dirty Dozen No. 1 -- Speckled Red

Let’s Have Another Cup Of Coffee -- Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians

The Letter -- Joe Cocker

If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) -- McKinney’s Cotton Pickers

Rip It Up -- Elvis Presley

Bop Cat Stomp -- King Charles

I’ll Be Up Someday -- Kokomo Arnold

Let My People Go/Get Up Stand Up -- Neville Brothers

Skelly Oil -- (Old Time Radio Commercial)

Black Cat Hoot Owl Blues -- Ma Rainey

Fire On The Bayou -- Funky Meters

Something’s Got A Hold On Me -- Etta James

Weed Smoker’s Dream -- Harlem Hamfats

Mean Little Mama -- Roy Orbison

My Handy Man Ain’t Handy No More -- Edith Wilson

That’s What The Man Said -- Louis Armstrong

Spider’s Nest Blues -- Memphis Jug Band

Peter Gunn Theme -- Henry Mancini

You’ve Got To See Mama Ev’ry Night -- Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds

Troubled In Mind -- Pilgrim Travelers

Aggravatin’ Papa -- Bessie Smith & Her Down Home Boys

Talkin’ Dirty To Me -- The Swing-O-Matics

Bad Girl Shoes -- Peggy Cone

Kansas City -- Wilbert Harrison

Bar Fly Blues -- Jimmy Witherspoon

Lady Marmalade -- Labelle

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Woodbury Lions Club hosting American Red Cross blood drives

Blood Drives in Cannon County for over 60 years.

It has been said that the Lions Club drives are the best in the Tennessee Valley Region Blood Services area, which includes all of Tennessee, parts of Kentucky, and Alabama.

The extra effort put forth by the Lions Club has little to do with it. The Woodbury Lions Club has a committee of members that work together to help insure that everything runs smoothly, along with community volunteers who like to help out.

Some of the volunteers have more experience working with blood drives that the actual Red Cross staff who go out daily working with blood drives within the area.

Committee chairmen’s Patsy and Carl Hirlston and Bobby Bogard with committee members Ken and Artie Jean McIntyre, Lois Larimer, Clyde Thomas, Nolan Northcutt, Robert Jennings, Charlie Brown, Clyde and Kitty Bush, Chris Brushaber, Danny Miller, Cliff Swoape, Andy Jacobs, Doug Combs, and Gina Mitchell, all work together along with community volunteers of Bessie Miller, Orval and Esther Gray, Juanita Burks, Cathey Parker, Betty Harder, Shirley Borren, Jane Jennings, Grace Young, Nile Young, Della Young, Robert Young, Kay Campbell, Carol Davenport, Bobbie Henline, Jim Henline, Betty Paschal, Ann Todd, Mary Sue Vinson, and Mary Nelle Hillis too create a professional staff that assist members of the American Red Cross staff.

The Lions Club assigns a task of greeting donors and signing them in, handing out water and assigning donors with a number.

Copies of the Cannon Courier are provided for donors to read before or after their donation.

Red Cross provides snacks and the Woodbury Lions Club has additional snacks such as: a one-of-a-kind trail mix, peanut butter and crackers, baloney and crackers, and cheese and crackers.

A staff works in the canteen area who assist the donors after they have donated by getting them a drink of juice, water, soda, or coffee and then sitting with them and talking. They also watch the donor to see if the donors face color changes or if their arm starts bleeding from where the donor had given blood.

Woodbury Club also keeps records of each donation and awards donors with pins and Certificates when completing gallon donations. Along with taking pictures of donors receiving awards and being pinned with a gallon donation pin, plus having members of the Lions Club calling and reminding donors of upcoming blood drives also adds a little bit more to why Cannon County Blood Drives are better and produces more regular donors than other areas which has a larger population.

Woodbury Lions Club host six blood drives a year, always the third Thursday in January, March, May, July, September, and November. Each blood drive is noon until six pm except May’s drive, which runs from 9 am until 6 pm. May’s blood drive is a donor appreciation drive, and most of the businesses in Cannon County donate door prizes.

In the last five to six years, each donor was able to win three of four items because of the generosity of the businesses and their support of the Lions Club and wanting to reward the true everyday heroes of Cannon County, those who give of themselves to help save the lives of others. In most cases, they are saving the lives of people who they do not know.

On May 20th, 2010 the following businesses provided door prizes for the heroes of Cannon County: A Touch of Home Flower’s & Gifts, Arts Center of Cannon County, Auto Zone, Birdsong Adhesives, Boyd’s Garage, Briar Rose Flowers and Gifts, Bromley/Jennings Automotive, Cannon County Chiropractic, Cannon Market, Captain D’s, CareAll, Cell Plus, Coco Tan & Spa, Chilangoes Mexican Restaurant, Curves, Cutting Edge Hair Salon, D J’s Pizza and Steakhouse, Family Dentistry Deason & Bucher, Farm Bureau Insurance, First National Bank, Flower Occasions, Gina’s Boutique, Hardee’s, Hayes Bros Auto Care, Hibdon’s Body Shop, Higgins Car Wash, J P’s Fine Swine Bar-B-Que, Jennings Jewelers, Joe’s Place, Legendary Cuts, Lightwriters Photography, Lions Pizza Den, The Millennium Hair Salon, Moonlite Drive-In, NAPA, The Old Feed Store, One Stop Market, Parsley’s Market & Deli, Paul Reed’s Furniture, Paul’s Auto Service, Piggly Wiggly, Potter’s Ace Hardware, Quick Shop Market, Reed’s Building Supply, Regions Bank, Roger Hindman Body Shop, Scavenger Hunt Flea Market, Scavenger Hunt Trading Post, The Scoreboard, Shirt Shack, Shotgun County Pawn & Gun, Smitty Tire Shop, Stewart’s Printing, Stone Gait Tack and Feed, Subway, West End Tobacco Store, Woodbury Auto Express, Woodbury Insurance Agency, and Woodbury Lawn & Garden. Every donor and volunteer received a promotional ink pen from DTC, a pillbox from Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Cooperation, Chap Stick from FirstBank, a value meal card from Sonic, and a 3 pound bag of stone ground corn meal from The Readyville Mill.

The Red Cross also provided promotional items and the Woodbury Lions Club provided $10 gift certificates and a grand prize of $100 gift card.

It is very hard to find another community that has so many businesses that support a civic club as much as the ones in Cannon County.

Most all the businesses give support to the Woodbury Lions Club for sponsorship of the Lions Club Horse Show, White Cane donations, and door prizes for the donor appreciation Blood Drive. Without support from the local businesses, the Woodbury Lions Club would not be able to do as much as it does within the community, state, country, and world. Local businesses are one of the leading reasons why Cannon County Blood Drives are so much better that anywhere else in the state.

Another reason and probably the number one reason the blood drives are the best anywhere is the volume of regular donors in Cannon County. In any community only a certain per cent are eligible to donate and of that per cent only about 3 to 5 percent actually donates, but the donors in Cannon County has a much higher percent.

This is not due to the Lions Club and its part, nor the businesses and its part, but it is the individual donor and the way of life in Cannon County, the way most have been raised to want to help others in need in any way they can.

The mentality of the average person in Cannon County is to serve in any way they can. This mentality is one of the reasons Woodbury Lions Club is one of the largest clubs in the state.

It is why the businesses give as much as they do, and why so many volunteers do jobs within the county for little or no pay. The parents, schools and churches within the community teach the children from an early age of the importance of giving back to the community in which they live and the lesson that it is more blessed to give than to receive.

This is why Cannon County has had over 360 donors in the past 2-½ years. Woodbury Lions Club and the American Red Cross both use fiscal years that begin on 1 July and end 30 June.

The following is a list of local heroes who gave during the 2009-2010 fiscal year. Those donating Double Red Blood Cells count as two donations, the max number of times any one can give in a fiscal year in whole blood or double red cells is 6. The number that follows a persons name is the amount of pints given as of 30 June 2010.

One-time donors: Stephanie D. Alford 5, Annie L. Barton 60, Peggy S. Baxter 30, Timothy L. Bell 11, Stephen E. Blonder 10, Brenda Bogard 23, Candace Jones Bond 1, Charles H. Bowman 20, Tami M. Bragg 12, Billy D. Brinkley 3, Charles E. Brown 33, Joe R. Bryson 23, William H. Bryson 33, Stephen A. Burnett 3, Clyde W. Bush 14, Charmaine D. Cawthorn 1, Patrick A. Cecil 1, Manuel Chapa Jr. 15, Karen J. Chumbley 11, Barbara Daingerfield 44, Mary Carole Davenport 42, Paul W. Denninger 7, Bonita O. Doxey 30, Frances Edwards 1, Clint A. Fann 5, Angela M. Ford 11, Mary Frances Foster 9, Autumn M. Fly Franks 1, Tonya Gannon 4, Leslie Joe Giley 28, Nora Lee Gilliam 10, Eric M. Good 4, Donna B. Gunter 4, Marilyn E. Hale 7, Sharon L. Hay 14, Carolyn E. Barton Hemby 7, Barry D. Hibdon 33, Erin T. Higdon 5, Sharon Duggin Hindman 25, Melisa L. Hobbs 17, Shannon D. Jett 9, Fairy L. Johnson 2, Lori J. Malay 7, Perry M. Markum 5, Vicky L. Melton 34, Brittany L. Mingle 7, Angela P. Moore 18, Danielle Nicole Mosley 12, Talma S. Mosley 8, Lauren M. Nicolay 2, Rita G. Nokes 7, Misty G. Orr 1, Brittne H. Parker 4, Joseph A. Patterson 11, Brenda Faye Phillips 15, Jo Ann Pirtle 1, Joy Pope 3, Janice O. Purvis 28, Walter E. Reifschneider 19, Shantika M. Reiter 2, Phyllis S. Robinson 47, Marianne Teresa Sadler 15, Amber M. Scott 1, Kelly Edward Sissom 30, Valerie D. Smith 4, Wayne P. Smithson 26, Olivia D. Snyder 1, Teresa S. Stoetzel 6, Crystal B. Street 4, Eddie N. Taylor 41, Jamie A. Trail 2, J. D. Underhill II 2, Falischa Urban 1, Jennifer Vallieres 2, Sean N. Vance 3, Amanda J. Winfrey 1, Dorothy D. Winnett 13, Tracey L. Winters 9, and Alan D. Wollard 8.

Two time donors: Misty D. Bain 14, Teresa D. Bain 19, Ronald F. Born 6, Christopher B. Brandon 2, David L. Brown 3, Lacey N. Buchanan 9, Charles Ronny Burks 34, Jennifer M. Coppinger 16, James Morgan Cummings 90, Franklin Daniel 12, Edgar E. Davenport 6, Rebecca M. Davenport 68, Andrew L. Duggin 5, Joyce Frazier 2, Kenneth P. Garrett 11, Andrea K. George 4, Rodney Lee Gilliam 17, Kay F. Goff 69, Cory S. Hollandsworth 14, Christopher J. Hollenbeck 5, Pamela F. Hoskins 43, Christopher Johnson 5, Robert D. Jones 27, Thomas D. Mason 56, Tammy W. Mathis 14, Shelby J. Merriman 60, Brandon S. Mims 8, Dean More 6, Jennifer R. Mosley 5, Travis C. Prater 9, Michael T. Reed 3, Xavier P. Romero 18, Melody R. Rutledge 9, John W. Sanborn 56, Roger J. Smith 14, Darrell G. Snyder 26, McKenzie Solomon 5, Candice B. Stoetzel 13, Nancy L. Studd 9, Jessica L. Sullivan 3, Brandee S. Summers 5, Garry L. Underhill 12, James E. Weller 3, and Nile Young 45.

Three time donors: Richard D. Burks Sr. 83, Joshua W. Demembreum 4, Jeffery D. Denny 11, Russell D. Fann 33, Jo Ann Francis 54, Randy A. Gerdes 47, James W. Henline 44, Patsy Miller Hirlston 43, Debbie Renee Israel 12, Jennifer M. Johnson 8, Melanie G. Lyon 4, Ann D. McBride 53, Calvin F. Orwig 39, Alan W. Paschal 17, Jan Powell 34, Kenny Denard Sanders 5, Brittany A. Stluka 6, David L. Stone 7, Nellie F. Stone 5, Melissa L. Talley 3, Annette A. Tidwell 3, Billy R. Tidwell Jr. 5, Charie Ann Urban 4, Micki M. Vinson 74, Jack B. West 16, Michael L. Witty 41, and David W. Zabriskie 3. Four time donors: Jimmy Alexander 39, Cynthia D. Betts 39, Carmella K. Burton 13, Mary E. Duncan 42, Jana M. Gannon 62, Joan Hayes 14, Kayla E. Hindman 14, Joseph E. Hurst 16, James L. Logan 48, Gina A. Mitchell 38, Valerie L. Morton 4, Tracy A. Parker 39, Rebekah L. Parton 19, Karin P. Petty 40, James F. Sabia 44, Billy K. Tenpenny 33, Juan S. Urban 4, Travis M. Urban 5, April D. Vance 12, and Millisa A. White 17.

Five time donors: Guy Alexander Jr. 41, Jeff R. Campbell 8, Gabriel S. Cantrell 9, Rita F. Cook 12, Randal L. Curtis 52, James P. Davenport 12, Andrew B. Dimartino Sr. 84, Cheryl K. Franklin 44, Timothy H. Grandey 50, Esther E. Gray 39, Orval L. Gray 55, Herbert C. Haley 64, John Arthur Haugh 9, Roger G. Hindman 28, Sandy K. Hollandsworth 77, Timothy A. Minerd 15, Charlie Luther Mooneyham 48, Steve R. Perkerson 67, James Powers 38, and Leland J. Schwamberger 19.

Six time donors: Christopher E. Brushaber 6, Allen Wade Duggin 29, Rainey Hunt 48, Charles W. Jennings 18, Stephen R. Moss 20, Teddy L. Powers 77, Steve A. Smith 140, and Howard W. Witty 163.

The Woodbury Lions Club has received several awards of appreciation from the American Red Cross for their support of the Community Blood Program, and there is a lot of speculation as to why a small community does so well on the blood drives.

A lot of the credit is given to the Lions Club for putting out an extra effort.

Some credit is given for having good media coverage with the Cannon Courier, the Cannon Wire, and WBRY radio. Some credit is given for the support given by the businesses in Cannon County.

Any community can have a civic organization that puts forth the extra effort, and have good media and local businesses supporting them, but they don’t have the attitude and dedication of serving others that is instilled into Cannon Countians from birth until death.

The Woodbury Lions Club expresses heartfelt gratitude to all the media, businesses, and donors for exceeding the yearly goals set forth by the Red Cross based on past history.

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Join us as we take you on a virtual tour of Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection! Created by Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and Carmen Hermo, Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.

Starting with groundbreaking work by women artists, the show looks at practices once considered ‘out of place’ for reasons as varied as an artist’s identity, the community they came from, or the unconventional materials they used.

Out of Place shows how artists once seen as outside the mainstream have enriched and changed art history and contemporary culture. The exhibition is organized in three parts.

Institutional Space highlights the important ways women artists have changed art historical conversations, adding feminism to abstraction for example, and proving that creative brilliance exists in domestic craft forms as much as it does in the more venerated mediums of painting and sculpture. 

In the 1970s historical American quilts were shown on the walls of modern art museums for the first time, and a tradition once seen merely as women’s work and an outlet for domestic inventiveness was suddenly understood as a brilliant and ongoing history of creative abstraction with deep cultural legacies. Here a 1995 crazy quilt by Anna Williams (left) is paired with an 1890s Amish Bars quilt (right).

Fun fact: It’s not what you think/it’s got nothing to do with insanity – the name crazy quilt comes from the surface looking splintered or crazed, like stained glass.

Beverly Buchanan, Untitled (Frustula Series) (circa 1978)

A groundbreaking artist in New York in the 1970s, Beverly Buchanan enriched the often purely cerebral  Minimalism of the day with poignant narratives, evoking ruins, the geological world, and lost histories of African American communities through her strata-like, layered concrete constructions.

Polly Apfelbaum, The Dwarves without Snow White, 1992

The horizontal orientation of this multi-part painting by Polly Apfelbaum deliberately departs from the traditional conventions of the medium. Composed of stained, crushed velvet, which the artist has called  “the perfect modern material,” for both its elegance and accessibility, The Dwarves without Snow White links the ridiculous misogyny of fairy tales with the oppressive social history of abstract expressionism.

Place Making recalibrates the influence of artists and art-making communities that thrive outside of art world epicenters. While artists with mainstream ambitions often feel the need to live in cities like New York – with major museums, galleries, and large creative communities ––  richly varied forms of creative expression that have always flourished in less heralded places continue to influence and change the mainstream in brilliant ways.Many of the artworks in this section explore place as a subject or subtext.

An unflinching parody of white America turning a “blind eye” to the entrenched oppressions common under Jim Crow, Thornton Dial’s “The Town” features a lively and colorful townscape, hiding a menacing violence conveyed by cavorting figures– two with their eyes pointedly gouged out. This artwork, and several other highlights in the show, were gifted to the Museum in 2018 by Souls Grown Deep Foundation. 

God’s Gift to Man was a part of a significant gift of artwork by African American artists working in the South from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. Constructed on and from a tree trunk sourced in the Tennessee woods, Bessie Harvey’s embellished female characters reflect the artist’s own struggle to reconcile her strong Christian beliefs with personal experiences of sexual violence.

Judith Scott, Untitled (1994)

From 1987 to 2005, Judith Scott worked at Creative Growth, a studio-based program in Oakland, California, designed for artists with developmental disabilities. Scott’s compelling sculptural assemblages transform art history, telling a complex story about creativity and cognitive diversity. The Brooklyn Museum organized the first major retrospective of Judith Scott’s work in 2014.

Can you guess what found objects Scott incorporated inside this object?

Mary Frank, The Apparition (1959)

Fun Fact: Mary Frank created The Apparition just a few years after completing studies at the Brooklyn Museum Art School.

Focusing on domesticity as a subject, or a site for artmaking, Domestic Space, feels particularly relevant   during our current social distancing moment. Including artists who worked at home, often carving out space to create within demanding economic and familial situations, this section makes connections to feminist critiques of domestic labor and art hierarchies.

Mary Heilmann, Blinds (1975)

Mary Heilman’s paintings humorously ground abstraction in everyday life, in part in response to the long and at times oppressive shadow that Abstract Expressionism cast over painters of her generation. Heilman’s Blinds series was inspired by the artist’s private surroundings, and includes references to air vents, French doors, and window blinds.

Stella Waitzkin, Four Thousand Images (1993)

Stella Waitzkin was a lover of books as objects and metaphors for intellectual freedom. Casting them by the thousand as resin sculptures, Waitzkin created an elaborate environment full of domestic objects rendered as sculptural abstractions in her rooms at the Chelsea Hotel.

Carolee Schneemann, Infinity Kisses II (1990–98)

Frequently disparaged by an art world that wasn’t ready for her trailblazing and challenging ideas,  Carolee Schneemann embraced her most radical creative impulses: In this case her self-determined role as an outlandish cat lady. Infinity Kisses is part of a decades-long project documenting a morning ritual with her cats Cluny and Vesper (who she saw as reincarnations of one being), exploring taboos around sensuality and love.

Thank you for joining us on our virtual tour of Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection. Tune in next Sunday for another virtual tour of our galleries.

Installation views, Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Brooklyn Museum. Photos: Jonathan Dorado

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Illawarra Squads Named For Country Week

It will be a big weekend in Tamworth over the Long Weekend for the NSW Country Championships. The Illawarriors Senior and Womens Squads will be there to defend their Country Titles won in 2018. The Under 19 Colts will also be there competing for the outright Colts Championship after many years languishing in 2nd tier competition.

The Senior Illawarriors will probably go into the weekend considered favorites for the title with Newcastle Hunter choosing not to attend this year’s tournament. The Illawarriors will be shooting for our fourth title in five years. First up we play Central Coast on Saturday at 3.50PM for a place in the Caldwell Cup Final to be played on Sunday at the impressive Scully Park complex at West Tamworth.

The Ladies have two pool games to play on Saturday against Central North (9.40AM) and Central West (2.30PM) with the winner of the pool progressing through to the Womens Final on Sunday (10.50AM). The Lady Illawarriors are rated number one in their Pool and favored to win through to meet either Hunter, Mid North Coast or Central Coast in the Finals matches.

The Colts are in for a long day on Saturday with an early 8.00AM start against Mid North Coast. The other sides in the Colts Pool are the strong Newcastle/Hunter (12.20PM) and Central West (2.30PM). It’s a tough Pool for the young guys but this group has talent across the squad and will do the Illawarra proud.

You can get all the details as they occur on the IDRU Facebook page and a full report from the Rogue on the Website at the end of each days play.  

The Senior and Colts Squads have been finalized with the Womens to be completed by Wednesday.

Illawarrior Seniors Squad                                                                

Casey Rameka  (University), Clancy Donnan (Bowral), Jesse Roche © (Shamrocks), Lisiate Tupou (Kiama), Wayne Ngatai (University), Jeromy Cairns(Avondale), Cody Roman (Vikings), Jack Hobbs (Vikings), Leighton Cowley (Kiama), Jack Parson (Bowral),  Takunda Chimwaza (University),  Dane Netherey (Vikings), Liam Antrobus (Vikings), Paul Vakaruru (Tech Waratahs), Andy Duggan (Avondale), Tom Baker (University), Lachlan Huntington (Bowral), Nick Rangiuira (University), Sebastian Sell (Bowral), George Rixon (University), Henry Yuill (Bowral), Aisake Tueve (Tech Waratahs), Ryan Knight (Bowral), Jake Kara (Avondale). 

Coaching Staff - Head Coach -  Richard Thompson. Assistant Coaches - Donovan Nepia, Brendon Schouppe, Gavin Holder. Manager - Garry Howell

Colts U/19 Squad  

Soull Lauvi-Johnson (University),            Tremane Malafu (Avondale), Jack Dolan (Camden), Manaia Cairns (Avondale),  Tolson Kennerley (University), Opeti Taufahema © (University), Atutuahi Reti ( Campbelltown), Harvey Austin (Kiama), Jackson Rice (University), Cooper Hanson (University), Blake Leng   (Avondale), Kyle Wasson (Campbelltown), Blake Wellington (University),  Blake Gurney (Shoalhaven), Semisi Faasisila (Campbelltown), Tahj Amone (Kiama), Urich Aiono (University), Eti Maonanu  (Campbelltown), Nathaniel Malaki (Avondale),      Alex Swan (Kiama), Blake Curls (Kiama), Ford Pasese (Campbelltown), Ben Holland (Kiama), Te Paki Tiananga (University),Valere Moise (Vikings).

Coaching Staff - Head Coach, Evan Poata-Smith. Assistant Coaches - Joe Aiono, Tim Olsen. Manager - Mathew Rautahi

Illawarra Women

Lisa King – Campb, Lesaoai Filvao – Campb, Letti Inu Kepu – Campb, Ashlee Makim – Campb, Kaari Macdonald – Campb, Malama Leatigaga – Uni, Sandra Laughlin (Cpt) – Campb, June Norton – Uni, Elizabeth Maraeara – Campb, Melinda Dunn (V Cpt) – Campb, Ruari Von Prott – Uni, Chantelle Leatigaga – Uni, Brooke Harper – Uni, Pitisepa Lindsey Hala Pa – Uni, Bessie - Lucille Platt – Uni, Grace Wright – Uni, Koniseti Tinao- Uni, Matetata Hona – Campb, Mercy Milford – Campb, Salava Mila – Campb, Teleri Jamieson – Uni,Sally Fuesaina – Campb, Adi Kelera Turaganivolo – Campb, Kristina Buchanan – Campb, Finlay Parker Uni.

Coaching Staff - Coach - Paul Verrell, Coach - Andrew Choice.                 Manager - Faith Everingham

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