Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw and Janelle Monáe talk about musically honoring the Black women who have been murdered by police: “Not as celebrities, not as artists, but as daughters, as sisters, as family. How can we bring more awareness to their cases?”
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Danielle Levitt, Annabel Clark Last week, alongside lawyer, civil rights advocate, and pioneering scholar Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum, musical and theatrical auteur Janelle Monáe released a powerful, 17-minute, femme-focused revamp of her rousing song “Hell You Talmbout.
Dr. Crenshaw, with the creation of #SayHerName, when was the moment that you decided, “Enough is enough: We have to do something on a cultural level”? So quite literally, #SayHerName was an imperative that came directly from that moment of protest. We were literally saying, “Say her name!” So that more or less became the impetus for what we’re telling people. This is something that needs to be said. We’re marking the space where it’s not being said. We are making clear that there is a gender dimension to anti-Black police violence, and we need a marker for that. Over the months, more and more people started saying it.
And when you see something like that, and when you see family hurting like that, you just take on a different level of responsibility. It becomes personal. I feel like I am family, they are family, and we have to take care of them. What can we do? And the one thing that I knew we had was an opportunity to use our voices, to speak truth to power, to bring more awareness.
When we had a listening of the song with all the mothers and the family members, I got an opportunity to be on that call with them. And I’ma tell you, it was a different level of just like, “Finally,” on their faces. “Finally, more people are recognizing my baby. That’s all we want is to be acknowledged. That’s all we want is for people to know how incredible my little sister was, how incredible my daughter was.” They want their loved ones to be acknowledged.
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