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‘We Need a Gender-Inclusive Understanding of Police Violence’
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CounterSpin
Is that because Black women’s deaths via the same state-sanctioned violence that kills Black boys and men are less compelling?
That project is now reflected in a book, Say Her Name: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence, out this week from Haymarket Books.
And so let’s just address the fact that this is not about saying that Black men and boys are not also [affected].
So we’re not just replacing Black women and Black men in the conversation, but understanding that we need to have a gender-inclusive understanding of police violence.
But we do know that Black women represent about 10% of the female population in the United States, yet account for one-fifth of all women killed by the police.
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