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“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
“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
“Be yourself until you make them uncomfortable”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
― Beyond the Gender Binary
“The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid. They tell us to “be ourselves,” but if you listen closely, there’s more to that sentence: “. . . until you make them uncomfortable.”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
― Beyond the Gender Binary
“The imperative to disappear thus creates the context for violence against Indigenous women, producing controlling narratives framing them as inherently dangerous and violent, heartless, promiscuous, unclean, drunk and disorderly, “inherently rapeable,” incapable of feeling pain, and irresponsible.”
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Malika’s 2025 Year in Books
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