As Diasporic Black women, as Black women who mother, biologically and other,
the Collaborative for the Research of Black Women and Girls
write this letter in response to state sanctioned violence and anti-Blackness. We affirm the work of
African American Policy Forum’s
#SayHerName
initiative, the
Black Visions Collective, the
Movement for Black Lives
and the broader struggle to build a gender inclusive movement and lift up the voices of all self-identified Black women. We write this letter as we mourn Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmad Arbery, Tony McDade, Rakia Boyd, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Mya Hall, Atatiana Jefferson, Korryn Gaines, Sandra Bland and all the numerous daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, mamas, fathers, cousins, aunties and uncles that we have
lost. We mourn!