Women Claiming the Streets, Women Claiming Community by Janell Hobson, Ms. Magazine The streets have always been a site of political struggle, but this year, how women have been positioned on the streets is a lesson in community building and feminist solidarity. While the Ferguson, Missouri, protesters became a huge story in 2014—even coming close to being named Time‘s Person of the Year—few may remember just how central women of color have been in mobilizing this movement: from Feminista Jones, who organized one of the first national protests against the shooting death by police of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, to young black women finding their voices on the streets, at rallies, and in meetings, to social media activists Alicia Garza, Patrisse Marie Cullors-Brignac and Opal Tometi creating the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter in the wake of injustice against Trayvon Martin, which is now used to mobilize the masses in continued protests throughout this country and the world... msmagazine/blog/2014/12/12/women-claiming-the-streets-women-claiming-community/
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 15:56:55 +0000
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