Note: This essay contains references to multiple forms of state, racial, and gender-based violence. 1 Her comrades called her Red. She may have been born in Chicago or New Orleans as Saundra Cosey, Sandra Lee, Sandra Lane, or possibly Sandra Jones. Gaidi Faraj tells us she was named Saundra Hobson. In her teens, owing to…
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