Black women killed by police haven’t been highlighted in the same way as Black men, says Kimberlé Crenshaw, co-founder of SayHerName. “If we can say their names we can know more about their stories.'
How has the Say Her Name movement been moving forward in a moment when another movement — Black Lives Matter — has been so very front and center?
Say Her Name sees itself as part of the Black Lives Matter movement. What we're very much hoping Say Her Name does is to broaden the conceptualization of what vulnerability to anti-Black police violence looks like: the typical stories, the things that people think happen, are conflicts largely between men. So it's a typical kind of
Black men walking down the street, he looks suspicious even though he isn't and the police encounter him.What we want to do is say: That's a risk factor, but also when a Black woman is driving a car and a police officer doesn't like her response and so he threatens to taser her and that escalates into that person being dead.
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