Beyoncé to star in a movie about Sarah (Saartjie) Baartman.

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Degrading images of Sarah ("Saartjie") Baartman have resurfaced online following rumours that Beyonce plans on writing and acting in a movie based on her life. It seems a range of publications from the BBC to Marie Claire SA think it's fine to reproduce exploitative 19th century images of a naked Baartman to tell their stories. Although Baartman's story is challenging to tell without the photographs, feminist writer GAIL SMITH argues that the story is not impossible to tell. She spoke to Mbali Zwane about it.

 

Baartman, at the age of 17, was shipped to Europe during the 19th century and exhibited at freak shows under the name Hottentot Venus. (The term "Hottentot" is an offensive term used to refer to the Khoisan people).

 

"She was a victim of egregious human trafficking. For every hour of degradation and humiliation she suffered in the icy streets of Piccadilly and shivering in the Jardins des Plantes in Paris, her mother, sisters, cousins yearned to know she was okay, wondered if she would ever come home. She never made it," says Gail Smith, a descendant of the Khoisan who helped bring Baartman back home.

 

http://allafrica.com/stories/201601112357.html

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman

 

http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/01/07/beyonce-sarah-baartman-movie-role-saartjie-south-africa/

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