Before JLo was a flygirl, Bessie Coleman was an actual flygirl. She was an American aviator and first black and Indigenous woman to earn a pilot’s license and the first Black person of any gender to earn an international pilot’s license. Because flying schools were made up of a bunch of ignorant dicks, she taught herself French, moved to France, and earned her license there. She was a pioneer of women in the field of aviation at a time when such a thing was unheard of, flying through the segregated south and refusing to back down when every fucking odd was stacked against her.
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