BINARY BASHERS
Season Finale: Hard in America - Frances Thompson
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Frances Thompson, a formerly enslaved Black trans woman, lived her womanhood in public despite escalating danger in post, Civil War Memphis. She survived the white supremacist violence of the 1866 Memphis Riots and testified before Congress, placing her voice into the national archive at a time when Black women were rarely heard.
Later arrested under laws policing gender nonconformity,…