This video was published on YouTube on April 26, 2016.
Two
years ago, a study emerged found that there are currently 64,000
missing black women. In 2010, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. was arrested for
the suspected serial-killings of over a hundred black women over a
span of twenty years. Within the first two years of Franklin’s killing
spree, authorities suspected a serial killer was on the lose, but failed
to inform the public because the victims were low-income women. Moved
by stories such as Sandra Bland's to the fourteen year old girl swung
around by a police officer in McKinney, Texas, Ellison creates a spoken
work piece which comments of the insidious and expansive nature of
misogynoir— a term coined a Moya Bailey.
Alexandria Ellison is a student at Emerson College and spoken word poet who is working to end the caricaturing of women of color.
Alexandria Ellison is a student at Emerson College and spoken word poet who is working to end the caricaturing of women of color.
Source: TEDx Talks
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