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#SayHerName is a gender-inclusive racial justice movement that campaigns against police brutality and anti-Black violence against black women in the United States. The movement aims to highlight the gender-specific ways in which police brutality and anti-Black violence disproportionately affect black women, especially black queer women and black trans women. In the hopes of accumulating a large social media presence alongside other racial justice campaigns, including #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackGirlsMatter, the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) coined the #SayHerName hashtag in February 2015.〔In May 2015, the AAPF released a report entitled "Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality against Black Women," which outlines the goals and objectives of the #SayHerName movement. Following Sandra Bland's fatal encounter with police in July 2015, the AAPF, in conjunction with the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Colombia Law School and Soros Justice Fellow, Andrea Ritchie, issued an updated version of the original report.〔 The updated version includes a description of the circumstances surrounding Bland's death as well as several accounts detailing recent incidents of police-instigated violence against such black women as Tanisha Anderson and Rekia Boyd. In addition to these accounts, the report provides an analytical framework for understanding black women's susceptibility to police brutality and state-sanctioned violence as well as offers suggestions as how to best mobilize communities into racial justice advocacy.〔 Drawing from the AAPF report, the #SayHerName movement strives to address the invisibilization of black women within mainstream media and the #BlackLivesMatter movement.〔 Of its many agendas, one includes commemorating the women who lost their lives due to police brutality and anti-Black violence.〔 To advance this agenda, the AAPF, along with twenty local sponsors and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Colombia Law School, organized a vigil on May 20, 2015, in New York City, where dozens gathered to demand that the public no longer ignore black women's struggles against gendered, racialized violence. == Origins of the Movement == The #SayHerName movement arose as a response to both the media's and the #BlackLivesMatter movement's tendency to exclude black women's contributions and lived experiences from mainstream racial justice narratives about police brutality and anti-Black violence. Specifically, #SayHerName stems from what many perceive as a critical, urgent need to address the following discrepancy: police killings of such cisgender black men as Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown tend to garner a much higher degree of public outcry than police killings of such black women as Rekia Boyd and Shelly Frey.〔 Given how, in addition to the media, #BlackLivesMatter has contributed to the invisibilization of black women's lived experiences, the movement ultimately situates itself within a history of African American activism in which the struggles and lived experiences of heterosexual, cisgender black men become the focus of mainstream racial justice narratives about racism, police brutality, and state-sanctioned violence.〔 Through its extensive focus on heterosexual, cisgender black men's lived experiences, some view #BlackLivesMatter, in its present manifestation, as an exclusionary movement that disregards the gender-specific ways in which police brutality and state-sanctioned violence disproportionately affect black women, especially black queer women and black trans women.〔 According to Kimberlé Crenshaw, one of the founders of the AAPF, black women's continued exclusion from dominant narratives about police brutality, racism, and anti-Black violence reproduce this erroneous notion that black men are the chief victims of racism and state-sanctioned violence.〔 As a consequence, dominant cultural conceptions of anti-Black violence wind up omitting any considerations into how the intersections between race, gender, class, and sexual orientation render black women susceptible to gender-specific forms of police-instigated violence, such as rape and sexual assault.〔〔 To combat the media's and #BlackLivesMatter's tendency to invisibilize black women's struggles and lived experiences, #SayHerName seeks to incorporate a gender-inclusive, intersectional approach to racial justice advocacy that stresses how gender, race, class, and sexual orientation serve as the central axes around which racialized violence operates. Although #BlackLivesMatter has contributed significantly to the invisibilization of black women's contributions and lived experiences, #SayHerName does not intend to replace or overthrow the #BlackLivesMatter movement. On the contrary, #SayHerName aims to engage in active dialogue with #BlackLivesMatter in the hopes of inciting the latter to re-integrate black women's struggles and lived experiences into mainstream racial justice narratives about police brutality and anti-Black violence.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Say Her Name」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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