“Despite marches in her name, an outpouring on social media (hearkening back to the SayHerName campaign), and sustained pressure on the state’s attorney general, the officers who killed Breonna Taylor have not been arrested,” writes GabbyBellot
Photo: Courtesy of Tamika Palmer I remember the first time I felt a security guard’s gaze lingering on me. I was in my mid-20s in a museum in Washington, D. C., and each time I moved to a new room, he seemed to be there.
Since then, I’ve come out and updated my identification with my correct gender and name, but the same basic fears — being hunted and followed, being made to feel objectified and powerless — have stuck with me. I’ve been lucky, but I’ve also learnt to fear such men, especially those in uniform whose job it is to police and control and subjugate, with a particular fervor. To know that at any moment if they wanted to hurt or torment or fuck me, nothing, really, would have stopped them.
Even now, months after her senseless killing, Taylor still has not received anything like justice. It took the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and subsequent protests that roiled on across America, for her case to be more seriously reexamined. For Black trans women, the situation is even more tenuous. I think of Breona Hill, who was punched by two white policemen, then had her head smashed into the concrete twice, her face left with a serpentine bloody scar across the bridge of her nose; a cop pressed his knee into her neck in the same way that George Floyd was fatally restrained.
But when women of color — Black women most of all — react to these abuses with anger, we are all too often reduced to stereotypes; when trans women specifically show anger, we may be criticized for acting “masculine,” as if rage is an emotion exclusively reserved for men. But, as Audre Lorde knew, indignation is a natural response to inequality.
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