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BLACK FEMICIDE AWARENESS

From the Columbia University Mailman School of Pubilc Health; Black women in the U.S. were, on average, six times more likely to be murdered than their white peers for the years 1999 through 2020, according to an analysis of racial disparities in U.S. homicide rates by researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. The study indicates that Black women are more likely than white women to be killed by guns.

In 2020, around 1, 821 black women and girls had their lives taken away from them. Studies show it's mostly done by someone they know such as family members and partners.

Firearms are the main weapon used on the victims. From Connecticut Children's: Firearm violence has driven the homicide rates even further, with three-quarters of homicide victims dying of gunshot wounds. Awareness of this public health crisis has remained low among feminist movements, news media, law enforcement, and community-based organizations.

Intimate Partner Violence Among Young Black Girls and Women: The leading cause for pregnant black women is murder...by their partners. Pregnant Black women are 11 times more likely to be victims of femicide, according to an article published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. Pregnant-associated femicide refers to homicides of women during pregnancy or within one year of pregnancy.

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From Wikipedia: #SayHerName is a social movement that seeks to raise awareness for Black women victims of police brutality and anti-Black violence in the United States. The movement's name was created by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF). #SayHerName aims to highlight the gender-specific ways in which Black women are disproportionately affected by fatal acts of racial injustice. In an effort to create a large social media presence alongside existing racial justice campaigns, such as #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackGirlsMatter, the AAPF coined the hashtag #SayHerName in December 2014.

Did you know that this hashtag was specifically created to try and bring attention to Black women and girls who are victims of police brutality?

Women like Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Breonna Taylor, Michelle Cusseaux, Kayla Moore, Chevranna Abdi?

Girls like Aiyana Jones or Taylor Bracey?

Are these or other Black women or girls the first faces you think of when you see the phrase #Say_Name?

Did you know that one of the people involved in creating the hashtag was Kimberlé Crenshaw, the Black academic who coined the term 'intersectionality'?

ngl, the Say Her Name thing is one of those rare arguments where I assume racism is being purposely chosen by now. Because we've had this conversation MULTIPLE times in the past four years I been here, and it keeps happening. You've been told its original purpose, utilized it properly never, and are determined to act like you aren't being racist on purpose after you know you've been told. I'm sorry. I just don't believe in giving grace to others on this one. The entire existence of the hashtag versus how it's been disrespected literally proves the necessity of the hashtag against the very same evil it fights.

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Grace Wisher, a black girl at just 13 years old, helped create the American flag which inspired the national anthem.

Grace had been indentured as an apprentice to Mary Pickersgill, in 1809, when she was about 10 years old, by her mother, Jenny Wisher, who was a free African American. Indenture contracts were usually signed by the child’s father, but most free African Americans in Baltimore at that time had come from rural slavery, so it is possible that Jenny’s husband was still enslaved elsewhere, or she could have been a widow.

The terms of Grace’s indenture are fairly standard, with Mary promising to provide food, shelter, and clothing, and to teach Grace “the art of Housework and plain sewing.” Mary also promised to pay Grace’s mother $12 at the beginning and end of the indenture, and in exchange, Grace promised to faithfully serve and obey Mary for six years.

Maryland law required indenture contracts to end at the age of majority, which was sixteen, and so Grace likely left the Pickersgill household in 1815.

What happened to Grace after her indenture remains unknown, but what is known, is that Grace Wisher’s contribution to the creation of the Star-Spangled Banner flag deserves to be highlighted as part of its history.

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Grace Wisher, una niña negra, a la edad de trece años, ayudó a crear la bandera estadounidense la cual inspiró el himno nacional.

Grace fue puesta en un contrato como aprendiz de Mary Pickersgill en 1810, cuando ella tenía diez años de edad. Su madre Jenny Wisher, quién era una afroamericana libre, firmó el contrato. Los contratos de aprendizaje usualmente era firmados por los padres de los niños, pero la mayoría de afroamericanos libres venían de esclavitud rural, así que es posible que el esposo de Jenny estaba esclavizado en otro lugar o pudo haber estado viuda para ese entonces.

Los términos del contrato de Grace eran lo estándar. Mary prometía proveer comida, vivienda, ropa y enseñarle a Grace “el arte de las tareas domésticas y la costura”. Mary también prometió pagarle a la mamá de Grace la cantidad de doce dólares al principio y al final del contrato y a cambio, Grace prometia fielmente servir y obedecer a Mary por seis años.

La rey de Maryland requería que los contratos de aprendizaje terminaran a la mayoría de edad, la cual era dieciséis, así que Grace debió de haber dejado la casa de Pickersgill en el año 1815.

Se desconoce lo que le sucedió a Grace después de su contrato de aprendizaje, pero lo que sí se sabe es que la contribución de Grace Wisher a la creación de la bandera estrellada merece ser destacada como parte de su historia.

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The Relf sisters, were 12 and 14-years-old.

The sisters had been declared mentally incompetent by an Alabama physician who subsequently went ahead and sterilized them using federal money to pay for the girls procedures.

The children's mother could not read and write and did not know what she was signing at the time. She was deceived into marking "x" (which was used for as a signature for blacks who could not read or write) on the consent forms. Nurses first approached Mrs. Relf to get permission to inject the girls with a contraceptive depo-provera (still in its experimental stages).

The injection request was based on the governments interest in controlling the black population, race, and families living and likely to remain in poverty. But, months before the nurses approached Mrs. Relf the government had already decided to end funding for the hormonal injections because of the carcinogenic effect it was having in lab animals.

A nurse arrived to pick the girls up at the Relf's home the day they supposedly were going to have their birth control injections. Minnie Lee and Mary Alice Relf were left alone in the hospital ward. A nurse went into the girl's room and had Minnie Lee sign a false document, indicating that she was over age twenty-one (she was in fact fourteen years old).

The next morning, both sisters were placed under an anesthetic and surgically sterilized. Matter of fact, on the same day the nurse picked up Minnie Lee and Mary Alice to take them to the clinic, she returned to the Relf home in attempt to pick up Katie, the oldest sister to also go to the hospital for sterilization. But, she locked herself in her room and refused to go.

When Mrs. Relf questioned the girls about the shots. Minnie Lee told her that they had surgery. Mrs. Relf later found out that instead of her two girls having contraceptive shots, they were permanently sterilized with government funding.

Something Mrs. Relf never wanted to happen to her girls. The Relfs later joined a class action lawsuit in federal court demanding a ban on the use of federal funds for sterilization.

They also sued the surgeons and other associated groups for 1,000,000 dollars.

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Las hermanas Relf tenían doce y catorce años.

Las hermanas habían sido declararas mentalmente incompetentes por un médico de Alabama, el cual después las esterilizó utilizando fondos federales para pagar por los procedimientos.

La madre de las niñas no podía leer ni escribir y no sabía qué es lo que estaba firmando para ese entonces. Fue engañada para marcar ‘x’ (era utilizado como firma para personas negras que no sabían leer o escribir) en los formularios de consentimiento. Las enfermeras primero se habían acercado a la señora Relf para obtener permiso para inyectar a las niñas con un anticonceptivo llamado depo-provera (el cual seguía en etapa experimental).

La solicitud de la inyección estaba basada en el interés que tenía el gobierno de controlar a la población negra, raza y familias que vivían y probablemente permanecerían en la pobreza. Pero meses antes de que las enfermeras se acercaran a la señora Relf, el gobierno ya había tomado la decisión de cortar los fondos para la inyección hormonal debido al efecto cancerígeno que estaba teniendo en los animales de los laboratorios.

Una enfermera llegó a recoger a las hermanas Relf el día que supuestamente estarían recibiendo sus inyecciones anticonceptivas. Minnie Lee y Mary Alice Relf fueron dejadas solas en la habitación del hospital. Una enfermera ingresó a la habitación e hizo que Minnie Lee firmara un documento indicando que ella era mayor de veintiún años (de hecho, ella tenía catorce años para este entonces).

La mañana siguiente las hermanas fueron anestesiadas y quirúrgicamente esterilizadas. De hecho, el mismo día que la enfermera recogió a Minnie Lee y Mary Alice para llevarlas a la clínica, ella regresó a la residencia de los Relf para intentar recoger a Katie (la hermana mayor), para llevarla al hospital también a ser esterilizada pero ella se encerró en la habitación y se rehusó a ir.

Cuando la señora Relf le hizo preguntas a las niñas acerca de las inyecciones, Minnie Lee le dijo que habían recibido cirugías. La señora Relf luego supo que en vez de que sus hijas recibieran inyecciones anticonceptivas, estas fueron permanentemente esterilizadas con fondos gubernamentales.

Esto es algo que la señora Relf no quería para sus niñas. La familia Relf luego se unió a una demanda colectiva en una corte federal, demandando que se prohibiera el uso de fondos federales para la esterilización.

También demandaron a los cirujanos y otros grupos asociados por la cantidad de un millón de dólares.