This episode explore the life of Sara Baartman—a woman whose story embodies the struggle for recognition, dignity, and humanity. Through her experiences, we’ll draw connections to the ongoing invisibility and recognition faced by Black women globally that feed and filter in little Black girls’ sense of self in the United States.

Resources:

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery National Databank: Statistics. The Aesthetic Society. 2022

Brown, Phyllis. Sarah Baartman: the Terrible Exploitation of an Unusually Shaped South African Woman. History Insider. 2024

Clifton, L. (1975) “Homage to My Hips”, The Iowa Review. 6(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1848

"School Daze" is a 1988 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Spike Lee. 

Zola Maseko. The Life and Times of Sara Baartman : "The Hottentot Venus". New York, N.Y. :Icarus Films, 1998.