Dubose: A Womanist Family

My maternal grandmother, Otha Lee Dubose, died when I was one years old. I came to know her through her eight sisters and my great grandmother Savanah Dubose, who we all called “Mother”. My great aunts lived large. Wearing big wigs and fox fur stoles in 70 degree weather. The men in their lives knew their place.

This project helped me to learn more about my grandmother and her family. A family full of loud loving messy women. AACAT as a framework, with it’s focus on autoethnography, gave me the tools to record her life in fullness, outside of the oppression she drank daily. I was able to organize information about her in a way that reflects my family's values and that stays true to their stories.