“In addition, “More frequent allegations of black female deviance [involved] their inclination to kill their own children.”82 These images fueled the arrest, incarceration, and lynching of Black women, and the constitution of Black women “as subjects outside of the protected category ‘woman.’”83”
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
“From the early 1900s to the late 1960s, Jim Crow segregation laws86 effectively replaced the slave codes and Black codes.”
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
“In the words of Black Lives Matter cofounder Alicia Garza, “Black Lives Matter affirms the lives of Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, Black-undocumented folks, folks with records, women and all Black lives along the gender spectrum. It centers those that have been marginalized within Black liberation movements.”
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
“Invisible No More brings them all to the center, placing individual women’s stories into broader contexts, and identifying commonalities and distinctions between experiences of Black women and other women of color, and with those of Black men and men of color.”
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
“Be yourself until you make them uncomfortable”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
― Beyond the Gender Binary
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