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Jean Satterfield plays the revolutionary leader of an underground women s army in the 1983 feminist classic Born in Flames. (Argenis Apolinario/The Bronx Museum of the Arts)
“Lizzie Borden, the filmmaker, is
not to be confused with the serial killer,” declares museum curator Jasmine Wahi, barely suppressing a laugh.
To be clear: Lizzie Borden, the filmmaker, was born in the late 1950s, in Detroit. Her chosen forename (originally Linda), pays homage to the infamous ax murderess who took a whack at the patriarchy nearly a century earlier.
“She was and is a radical intersectional feminist,” Wahi says of filmmaker Lizzie Borden, explaining why her 1983 movie
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