(repost from Jenna Daugherty's Facebook)
Did you know this iconic ska silhouette is a trans woman and ska singer named Brigitte Bond? The English Beat were inspired to draw her from a photo of her dancing with Prince Buster and it ended up being the inspiration for the now iconic “Rude Girl” silhouette. We’ve always been around and we’ve always been creative icons 💜🏳️⚧️🤘🏻
Update: Apparently my post has gone so viral that the woman who dug up the research reached out to thank me and ask if I could post her documentary on Brigitte which is so good!!!! Joanna Wallace I am so honored to post this, thank you so much for sharing a story of ours that was lost to history, please watch it if you haven’t 💜
@miriamrobern
Interesting - did Buster know she was trans? He was otherwise quite the bigot, playing the race card (blackhead Chinee man) &generally being a righteous christian zealot &misogynist. The ten commandments given to a woman are a shocker, even considering the times.
https://genius.com/Prince-buster-ten-commandments-lyrics
None of this meant to reduce or demean or any such thing. Just curious if he knew, because he would likely not have considered her equal to his gender or the repressed women of his commandments
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