“You don’t mess with Texas and you don’t mess with me,” LeeAnne Locken says in her Season 3 tagline for The Real Housewives of Dallas. You’d be wise to believe the carny kid turned bravolebrity—would you fuck with someone who once threatened to gut a castmate?

For Women’s History Month, Jezebel and The Root are partnering for JezeRoot, a series that focuses on women of color, domestic workers, and sex workers.