#missing black women

[brownbunniesblog]

[queenvlion]

[bossymarmalade]

Installation view of Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar at the Chicago Cultural Center

The exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center opens with the installation “Homegoing.” The work is a suspended image depicting a screenshot from Ma’Khia Bryant’s personal TikTok. In the photo she’s laying her edges, her jet-black hair shining, her baby face clean and free of makeup. Below the printed photo is a collection of candles, stuffed animals, and a bouquet. On April 20, 2021, Ma’Khia was killed by an Ohio police officer in what was later determined a justifiable homicide. She was 16 years old. 

In the gallery titled Rest and Recess: The Courtyard, the exhibition transports the viewer to the Caribbean where Black girls play together unburdened and hopeful. A tree, sculpted by Robert Narciso and made from branches from Rekia Boyd’s family home, sits in the center of the room casting a protective shadow over everything. From its branches hang yellow paper hearts scribed with the hopes and dreams of little Black girls. The sound of their joyful cacophony activates the space.

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[lovesexrelationships]

There is something going on with this case. So many of our people are being kidnap, killed and assaulted with no one seems to care…. 👩🏽‍🏫

[genderqueerdykes]

"Prison cells are disproportionately stacked with poor, disabled, Black, and Brown people; Black trans women, who are often at the intersection of all of these identities, are the most overrepresented group inside prison walls. A study by the National Center for Transgender Rights and the National LGBTQ Task Force found that almost half of Black trans women in the United States have been incarcerated. Once inside, their abuse rates are extreme. The abolitionist group Black & Pink surveyed 1,100 queer and trans people in lockup, and one out of three described being assaulted by prison staff. Groups like Black & Pink and the Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) have made themselves known to the system, so the system must employ ever more devious ways to cloak the abuses."

Toshio Meronek, January 2023. Excerpt from the introduction of the book Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary, authored by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major.

[theflashjaygarrick]

we need to have a term for when dc comics introduces a morally ambiguous/complex (or even heroic) woc and she gets turned into an irredeemably evil moustache twirling parody of herself. (Bonus round: already villainous woc loses any humanising or positive traits to become a irredeemable monster without any nuance)

examples

Amanda Waller

Talia al Ghul

Lady Shiva

Cassandra Cain (attempted)

Rose Wilson

Bonus round: Cheshire ( she was always evil but they took away her most humanising trait, her love for Lian, and made her only value her children as replaceable possessions)

this can be contrasted to the treatment of white woman villains who tend to become more anti heroic/heroic over time and are given more positive traits. (E.g. catwoman (I know she’s now Latina but dc seemingly forgot and it became canon after her redemption), Harley Quinn, poison ivy, etc).

[hypogryffin]

Thoughts on Akesumi?

not my cup of tea romantically but i do love their platonic dynamic

[bruiserdarula]

Miss b. Nasty

[graceandopulence]

[queenvlion]

[some-fantastic-kay]

Happy women's history month to them <3

[whoslayla]

sometimes babygirl is a 52 year old woman

[theclassymike]

Leo Howard on Days of Our Lives.