the story that is usually told with all of the air quotes features a hero name jerry cobb. she was the first woman to take all of the astronaut test and was the media. the name most familiar with the story. she is the woman right here. these stories feature a villain named jackie cochran. this woman right here. jackie is basically like a disney villain. she swoops down from on high. thwarts her would be sisters. and then goes home to her castle in effect she is basically melissa vent from sleeping beauty. there had been a lot written about the story. someone finds and gets all excited. this feminist story. it's all wrong. the more i dug into this. that is why there is so many air quotes. the whole narrative is just not right. i will tell you a little bit about the story today. we will also kind of walk you through the process of how i came to write this book. when i started reading about the story i read the raw rock feminist one. she is a woman in her early 30s. in a male dominant field trying to be known for her skill. it hits home for me in a lot of way. it really felt l

the story that is usually told with all of the air quotes features a hero name jerry cobb. she was the first woman to take all of the astronaut test and was the media. the name most familiar with the story. she is the woman right here. these stories feature a villain named jackie cochran. this woman right here. jackie is basically like a disney villain. she swoops down from on high. thwarts her would be sisters. and then goes home to her castle in effect she is basically melissa vent from sleeping beauty. there had been a lot written about the story. someone finds and gets all excited. this feminist story. it's all wrong. the more i dug into this. that is why there is so many air quotes. the whole narrative is just not right. i will tell you a little bit about the story today. we will also kind of walk you through the process of how i came to write this book. when i started reading about the story i read the raw rock feminist one. she is a woman in her early 30s. in a male dominant field trying to be known for her skill. it hits home for me in a lot of way. it really felt l

we are here because of a woman named jerry cobb scott, a professor of english and more than 30 yearsmber of the black caucus of the national council of futures of english it became clear to her that she was not seeing a lot of black authors represented in the places that she visited in the university she was aware of and she understood it was important for us to see black authors to get to know their stories, to connect with them to bond with them when you read an author's work or here in author song you start to connect and bond and experience life from their perspective. because african americans are central to what the united states is today, she knew it was essential to find a way for us to see more authors and hear more african-american authors and so she found african-american reading, it was a one-day event and people from all communities from the very beginning were invited to host readings and get-togethers featuring the works of black authors. she invited in churches and community organizations and even from the very beginning prisons participated in having read-in's to gat