How Pam Grier, Audre Lorde, and Cardi B. saved me.
6 min readAug 9, 2020
I was eight the first time I saw Pam Grier naked.
My father — battling his usual bout of insomnia — was up late watching television while I feigned sleep on the love seat. For over an hour, he shuffled through our collection of VHS movies looking for something to watch. He settled on “Coffy,” a Blaxploitation film starring actress Pam Grier.
