“Gender is structurally anti-black. Its assumptive logic maintains that all women have the same gender. This does more than render Black gender invisible or silent. It makes it conceptually impossible to think of gender violence as orienting more than the realm of gender.”

“Rather than a politic fixated on what binds women together in life, I want to focus to what separates Black women in death. What creates the conditions of (im)possibility for Black women to die like Korryn Gaines?“

“Blackness brings into focus a paradigm of existence that rests on a gratuitous structure of violence that unhinges Black people from a possessive relation to categories of identity. Anti-black violence bleeds across demarcations of difference.”

“When examining the contexts of Black gender, what emerges through theory is Blackness obscures the intensity and scope of violence such that Black suffering becomes indiscernible from violence experienced by others.”

“Thus, the intimate relationship between Black gender and violence becomes a crisis for non-Blacks, as this structural proximity is assumed as applicable to all.”

@abolitionista, “Black Feminist Theory for the Dead and Dying”

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