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Why is it that we march, protest, even riot for George Floyd, Rodney King, Michael Brown — but not for ANY Black Woman killed by the police? Who speaks up for Breonna Taylor beyond the grave? Where are the champions of Sandra Bland, found hanging in her jail cell & called a suicide? This week, Dr. Venus discusses if Black Lives Matter is code for Black "Men's" Lives Matter, and if this means going back to the historical positioning of Black Women as less valuable than Black Men in terms of social change. This episode is not about blame or divisiveness, but realizing that police murder is not good for ANY gender or race. There is no hierarchy in pain, but there is a purpose. All Black Lives matter, and it's not equal if everyone doesn't get the same fight. 

Key Takeaways: 

[2:48] The police officers who have killed Breonna Taylor have still not been brought to justice. 

[4:51] We are dealing with the historical wound where Black Female bodies have been disposable and seen as having little to no value. 

[9:20] When we say Black Lives Matter, what is conjured up in the psyche of American character is Black Straight Cis Men, and not the subcultures that have not been automatically accepted, such as trans or queer. Black Men have become marketing for the movement, but we need to realize that all Black Lives Matter. 

[13:01] Intersectionality is the conversion of gender, race, sexuality, and class.

[14:39] Black Women have been fighting and marching and mobilizing in major ways all along. We have been right there on the front lines.

[15:55] Black Women often find it so much easier to fight for others than for themselves, when really we should all get the equal fervor and energy of the movement.

[18:20] Historically, Black Women were not considered human, and were to be detained and used to create free labor, savage beasts to be tamed and used. The slave woman was seen as a workhorse, scapegoat, cash cow, or beast of burden. The social positioning of Black Women had these roles, which took away their credibility and painted them as angry, too strong to feel pain, or sexually promiscuous.

1. Mammy (heavy set/caretaker)
2. Tragic Mulatto (close to white/prize)
3. Jezebel (ho')
4. Sapphire (Angry Black Woman)

[25:40] If we took Black women out of this world, we would fail. We need them in every institution.

[27:50] If we don't value and fight for us, then how could the world value and fight for us?

Quotes:

• "If you don't know what's happening then you are only looking from a heterosexual normative straight Black Male lens, even if you don't know it. Then, anything that doesn't fit that lens looks like a problem."
• "When a Black woman gets dead by the police it's like she isn't even important enough to investigate."
• "We relate to Black women like we are disposable. Like we are not precious. That we are replaceable."
• " If we don't value and fight for us, then how could the world value and fight for us?"

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ARTICLES

1. Here's What You Need to Know About Breonna Taylor's Death

2. The FBI has opened an investigation into the shooting death of Kentucky EMT Breonna Taylor

3. The Cops Who Killed Breonna Taylor Are Still Free (IMPORTANT 4 MINUTE VIDEO!!)

4. Death Of Tanisha Anderson, Mentally Ill Woman In Police Custody, Ruled A Homicide

RESOURCES

1. Say Her Name: The Life And Death Of Sandra Bland Documentary

2. #SAYHERNAME CAMPAIGN, FILL THE VOID. LIFT YOUR VOICE. SAY HER NAME.

3. The African American Policy Forum

4. Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women (MUST READ)

ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER

Black Trans Women Murdered By Police

5. Two Black Trans Women Were Killed in the U.S. in the Past Week as Trump Revokes Discrimination Protections for Trans People

6. Two Black transgender women were killed last week, thousands showed up to protest

7. Police investigate 11th murder of a black transgender woman this year

8. Black trans women want the media to show them living, not just dying

HISTORICAL REFERENCES

1. The Deafening Silence Around Police Violence Against Black Women And Girls

2. Not just George Floyd: Police departments have a 400-year history of racism

3. Black Women, Slavery, and Silences of the Past

4. Sexual abuse of black women during slavery in America