Richard Derus’s Reviews > Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives > Status Update

Tying the evolution of #BlackLivesMatter primarily to its responses to a series of killings of African-American men and boys...obscures the feminist focus on {B}lack lives broadly. By refusing a presentist framing of the event, #BlackLivesMatter is not, as its founders make clear, only about what happened but about how to frame it, how to bear witness to histories of the present....
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Effective. Not elegant.