Language, as Black feminist literary critic Hortense Spillers reminds us, contains the architecture of violence against Black women. In her seminal 1987 essay “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book,” Spillers argues that violence against Black women emerged through discourse. They drag her back into the family home to do domestic work in place of the labor of mourning. She is not of this world, the video seemed to say; she will outlive the tired body politics that constrain Black women. She channels the titular guinea fowl, a creature whose wails alert other animals of the presence of predators.