![]() ![]() The book went out of print and wasn’t available outside certain academic libraries – save for a 500 copy republication by the Book Club of Texas in 1986 – for 96 years. But shortly after publishing her first book in 1925, a memoir of her young life titled “My First Thirty Years,” she disappeared. governments afraid of her putting pen to paper. She was a firecracker of a writer, a patron saint of radical truth in the eyes of her contemporaries, and the kind of woman that made the U.S. ![]() If she were a man, the University of Chicago graduate could have well been a literary icon. ![]() “Thirty years ago, I lay in the womb of a woman, conceived in a sexual act of rape, being carried during the prenatal period by an unwilling and rebellious mother, finally bursting from the womb only to be tormented in a family whose members I despised or pitied, and brought into association with people who I should never have chosen.” Gertrude Beasley was not one to mince words. Content warning: The following article contains discussion of sexual assault and incest. ![]()
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