DEFEND BLACK WOMEN

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HEADSHOTS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: SARA GÓMEZ, MARIELLE FRANCO, NANNY OF THE MAROONS, ANDAYE, OLUWATOYIN SALAU, MAMA TINGO, MARY JONES, bell hooks, and NEHANDA ABIODUN. THEIR HEADSHOTS ARE IN BLACK AND WHITE AND THEY ARE CONNECTED BY A COLORFUL MURAL BACKGROUND. Graphic by Jay Curry.

The 2nd Annual Defend Black Women March is in honor of Marielle Franco and the power of Black feminisms in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Defending Black Women is not a slogan – it's a political priority.

Today–on Sexual Assault Awareness Action Day–we are proud to announce that we are co-chairs of the 2nd Annual Defend Black Women March, which will take place from Friday, July 29th through Sunday, July 31st, 2022 in Washington, D.C.

For more information and to register for the March, please visit defendblackwomen.net

The goal of the march is to celebrate, center, and interrogate the life, leadership, and legacy of Afro-Brazilian bisexual feminist, politician, activist, and human rights defender, Marielle Franco and the power of Black feminisms in Latin America and in the Caribbean. Co-organizers of the March are Trinice McNally, Creative Director of the I Support Black Women Campaign and Jaimee Swift, Executive Director of Black Women Radicals.

The Defend Black Women March Weekend official headquarters will be at the Eaton Hotel in Washington D.C., located at 1201 K St NW, with a March and Rally kicking-off at Malcolm X Park (Meridian Hill Park) and will end at Black Lives Matter Plaza.

“We are in defense of and in defiance and solidarity with Black women and gender expansive radicals in Latin America and in the Caribbean.”

Globally, Black women face unprecedented amounts of violence: More than 20 percent of Black women in the United States are raped during their lifetimes — a higher share than among women overall, between 2005 and 2015, 61% of the women murdered by the police were Black women even though they represent 24.5% of the Brazilian population, and in Nigeria 30% of girls and women aged between 15 and 49 are victims of sexual abuse. Violence against Black women and gender expansive people is a global epidemic and has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

We are in defense of and in defiance and solidarity with Black women and gender expansive radicals in Latin America and in the Caribbean. Through this 2nd Annual Defend Black Women March, we hope to create new worlds, possibilities, and build solidarities so that across borders and boundaries, we all can and will be free.

You can visit the Defend Black Women website here.