we have jeannie thompson who is a poet, this might downgrade from the vicki covington who also was from birmingham. so we did draw on the alabama literary community that we knew and then we had authors from all over the southeast in addition to that. i think you could say that pretty much all of them to start out of the conventional name string religious tradition that there were a of felt some pushback. you know, it might be what you consider sort of minor comments were, you know, people not been as friendly or it may be a major in the sense he decide the sense he decide he needs a bigger job because you can't be the person you are and still remain in that position. but i would say over all and all of these essays there is a sense of when you decide to be who you really are, there's a tremendous freedom that comes with that. and so it's a bravery. it took courage for these women to step outside of the mainstream. but i think it was so much better for them to do that they had to conform to something that didn't fit today were any more. my sense from reading these essays is that it was w

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