Kimberlé Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum started the SayHerName campaign to bring awareness to the names of Black women who have been targets of police brutality and violence. hereandnow
Breonna TaylorTwo months before George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, Taylor, a 26-year old Black emergency medical technician, was in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, when plain-clothed police burst in with a no-knock warrant. Her boyfriend, thinking they were intruders, fired a shot.
“Their stories tend to just sort of dissipate into the ether,” Crenshaw says. “Had what happened on March 13 not happened just before two very high-profile killings of Black men, we probably wouldn't be saying Breonna Taylor's name either.” There’s a long history of sidelining Black women’s lived experiences. And it may be hard to conceptualize anti-Black violence against women because of the historical emphasis on Black men’s stories, she says.
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