If you watched Netflix’s “GLOW” — a brief series about the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling in the 80s — you probably remember the character “Welfare Queen” (Kia Stevens)— a towering, flamboyant, ...
In 1974 a woman going by the name of “Linda Taylor” was arrested in Chicago and charged with 31 counts of fraud, perjury and bigamy. It turned out she had used over 80 aliases and had represented ...
Decades after the term’s first use, the trope of the “welfare queen” has seen an aggressive re-emergence in political conversation. A term popularized by Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party in the ...