At The Intersection of Appropriation and Erasure In Activism
Alicia Garza stands with the words Black Lives Matter taped over her mouth to represent the erased voices of female and female identifying black victims, in solidarity with #SayHerName Protesting credit X-Spore. net In " A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement by Alicia Garza" on The Feminist Wire, Ms. Garza discusses herself, Patrice Cullors, and Opal Tometi uniting to create the ' 'Black Lives Matter' hashtag, building the infrastructure to transition it from social media to the streets, then organizing and executing the first #BlackLivesMatter ride. But what this essay is really about is something that all of us who are intersected members of any activist community have been subjected to. It is about theft. In this case, the theft of Black Queer Women’s work. It happened in two steps: appropriation and erasure. Ms. Garza's description of how other groups, activists, and corporate entities appropriated their work and then erased the existence o...