This #pride , we must remember the Black LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming people who are killed by people. The overlap of sexism, racism, homophobia, and transphobia fuels police violence against them, and the mainstream media all too often reacts to their deaths with indifference.
Just this week Tallahassee police shot and killed #TonyMcDade and then misgendered him. McDade, a Black trans man was also misgendered by local media that reported on his death.
Other Black LGBTQ victims of police violence include #KaylaMoore, a Black transgender woman who was murdered by Berkeley police officers who were called to help her during a mental health crisis. The officers who suffocated and killed Moore used transgender slurs to refer to her.
#MichelleCusseaux, a queer Black woman who lived in Phoenix, was killed by police who broke down her door and saw her holding a hammer that she had been using to fix a lock. The officer who killed her was not prosecuted even though his actions "fell outside of department policy."
#MyaHall was a Black transgender woman who was shot and killed by NSA police when she made a wrong turn and crashed into a guard post on NSA property. #IndiaBeaty, a queer Black woman, was kill by police who shot her five times when she she was holding a toy gun.
As pride begins, we must challenge mainstream narratives of police violence that reinforce systems of gendered erasure by failing to include the names and stories of Black LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming people who are also targets of police violence and brutality.
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Tonight, we’ll be live tweeting from our second #HerDreamDeferred event! #SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence - An Advocacy-based Book Club.
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In June of last year, #SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence co-authored by Professor KimberléCrenshaw and the African American Policy Forum was published.
#Juneteenth is an important holiday that commemorates the freedom of enslaved people in the US country. #FreedomToLearn
This year, Juneteenth arrives at a time when the knowledge of our ancestors and Black studies is under attack across the nation. #FreedomToLearn
As we celebrate our ancestors quest to liberation, we must also continue the fight by defending our #FreedomToLearn. Visit freedomtolearn.net for more info.
We start by wishing @KhalilGMuhammad a very happy happy birthday! 🥳🥳🥳
.@KhalilGMuhammad on the ugliness of the recent College Board revelations: "We have caught the @CollegeBoard in all the lies that they created from from day one in terms of when this controversy emerged." wsj.com/articles/colle…
How did we go from a racial reckoning to bans on Black studies? How did @CollegeBoard go from introducing an AP African American Studies (APAAS) course to appeasing authoritarians who seek to prevent the transmission of knowledge?
A thread. 🧵⬇️ 1/
August 2022: 60 high schools across the US offer a pilot course in APAAS, which @CollegeBoard began developing during the “racial reckoning” of 2020 as anti-racist protests swept the nation following the murder of George Floyd. 2/
September 2022: Flagship conservative magazine National Review publishes a screed denouncing APAAS as “leftist indoctrination,” arguing that Republicans in power should reject APAAS because the course “run[s] afoul of the new state laws barring CRT.” 3/
Under the repressive laws attacking teaching about race, "this kind of documentary can't be shown," says @sandylocks. "And I think it's important to recognize this and understand this." #TruthBeTold#TheNeutralGround
.@gocjhunt discussing the title of his film, The Neutral Ground. No, it's not about some mythical political neutrality. (Reviewers— that's a clear indicator you didn't watch the film!)