The centrality of the black male experience in the discourse of racist oppression has been passed down from generation to generation, through our politics and our culture, and the sad part of this story is that I likely would have never confronted that history if weren’t for a bald black man from Chicago jabbing his finger into my shoulder.
In the last two years we have seen black women victims of state violence receive national attention, and the rising prominence of Black Lives Matter network founded by three black queer identified women, BYP100, which states that it operates from a queer black feminist lens; what are the ways we are continuing to see the emphasis on black male oppression & how might we better improve the centering of black women?
