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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy
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This by @prisonculture and @redschulte is worth a read as injustice of #CyntoniaBrown’s case is in the news: “Courts historically mete out punishment disproportionate to the acts of self-defense by Black women, femmes, and trans people.” theappeal.org/not-a-cardboar… #FreeCyntoiaBrown
“Cyntoia characterized her survival strategies as survival sex work or teenage prostitution for an adult pimp....Cyntoia never described herself as a child sex slave...Such sensationalist language is reductionist and obscures the complexities...”
“Cyntoia is not a cardboard cutout upon whom other adults can project narratives of youth involvement in the sex trades...by portraying her as a victim w/out agency...make(s) it more difficult for her story of self-defense,fight to survive &resistance to violence to be respected”
“The consequences for young women who don’t fit the “perfect victim” narrative are significant” #FreeCyntoiaBrown
“The push to keep Cyntoia a child is also troubling... Is an adult, 29-year-old Black woman an unsympathetic victim? If so, why? Acknowledging trauma and resilience are often ignored in favor of the driving desire by the media and public to support only a perfect victim.”
“The reality, however, is there are no perfect victims. Twenty-nine-year-old Cyntoia deserves to be free from prison and absolved of this “crime,” no less than 16 year-young Cyntoia should have been.” theappeal.org/not-a-cardboar… #FreeCyntoiaBrown
“Let’s #FreeCyntoiaBrown — not only from the cage she has unjustly been held in for the past 13 years for fighting for her life, but also from narratives that take away her agency and police and control what it means to be a survivor of violence.” #FreeCyntoiaBrown
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