VOLUME 1: ISSUE 2
MAY/JUNE 2022

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‘Hiya Betty’: The Letters of Bessie Head

The generic-looking typescript (around two hundred pages of printer paper, bound with a rubber band) living in my office at Feminist Press predated me by many years. In 2015, when I excavated it from a drawer, I might have tossed it in the recycling bin but for the sticky note attached in the recognizable hand of my predecessor’s predecessor (i.e., Gloria Jacobs and Florence Howe), warning, Don’t throw away! Beneath that, centered in all caps:

CORRESPONDENCE OF BESSIE HEAD

WITH

BETTY FRADKIN & ALICE . . .

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