Your new post is loading...
Patricia Williams writes about the particular combination of racism and sexism that black women and girls endure. In her lead essay, Williams considers how African American women have their individuality effaced by crude and derogatory typologies, and how the justice system accords them less credence than their white peers, while disproportionately criminalizing and imprisoning them.
Williams writes of the police brutality black girls face, even in their own schools, the sexualization and objectification to which they are subjected, the inner lives that are ignored, and the narratives into which they are co-opted. "How does anyone survive having been marked with the trope of un-life?", she asks. "Is there a path to vivacity from being captured and captioned as the object of others' beliefs?"
