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Letters to Mammy

Letters to Mammy

a substack collaboration with Bethany Nicole

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Today’s post was made in collaboration with the brilliant
Bethany Nicole
. After realizing we both wrote about not wanting to become a Mammy, we decided to write letters to the actors who normalized the stereotype. My letter is to the actress Hattie McDaniel. She was in more than 300 movies, was the first Black woman who won an Academy award, and played Mammy in Gone …

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A guest post by
Bethany Nicole
Yerr! I'm Bethany Nicole: writer, cultural strategist, and the creator of Soulwork. I live, create, and labor at the intersection of intellect & ratchetry.
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