Horny History: Gertrude Bustill Mossell

It’s real history, as told by some horny dude in my inbox and me.

Gertrude Bustill Mossell (1855-1948) is one of many African American writers whose work has been overlooked in favor of white writers who wrote on similar topics. She wrote in her column “The Woman’s Department” in the New York Freeman of women’s rights to own property and attend college in 1885. She called for a constitutional amendment to enfranchise women among other feminist topics. Her column was the very first woman’s column in a black newspaper.

Roy joins us now as we tell her story.

Hopefully he’s just off telling the world about Mossell.

You can read her full 1894 book, “The Work of the Afro-American Woman” online here.

For further reading, her piece “A Lofty Study” is included in “Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought” edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall.