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Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first black female judge in the New York State Court of Appeals and the first female Muslim judge in the United States, was found dead on April 12, 2017. Sheila Abdus-Salaam was born Sheila Turner to working-class parents in Washington DC on March 14, 1952. Her inspiration to become a lawyer came from the TV shows she loved as a girl and from Frankie Muse Freeman, a civil rights activist and lawyer, who visited her school. Among her many accomplishments, Sheila Abdus-Salaam made the groundbreaking decision in a case that allowed LGBT parents to pursue equal parenting rights.  Lacking a final statement from a medical examiner or a suicide note, the police and the media have still been quick to label her death a suicide, citing that she was ‘stressed at work.’ We can only wait for further investigation and hope that she receives as much justice in death as she offered to the world in life. For the time being, until we know the results of the investigation, SAY HER NAME.

Vincent van Gogh

Let your head rest in my hand. Relax. I got you, I promise. I won’t let you go.

IYL 2016 Favourites - Part I

At the beginning of the new year we take time out to look back at some of the images that evoked the most positive response, by featuring the 20 most popular images featured on If You Leave in 2016.

However ultimately, this list is made not by us, but by all of you.

Part I features Images by:

Denis Cherim

Rafael M. Milano

Ivana Rajic

Maya Beano

Weli Waca

Lukas Sere Peltzer

Margaret Durow

Dimitris Tamvakos

Yo Vo

Simone Engelen

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IYL 2016 Favourites - Part II.

At the beginning of the new year we take time out to look back at some of the images that evoked the most positive response, by featuring the 20 most popular images featured on If You Leave in 2016.

However ultimately, this list is made not by us, but by all of you.

Part II features images by:

Greg Girard

Antony Bou

Guy Paterson

Tamara Lichtenstein

Toby Harvard

Elsa Bleda

Natasha Masharova

Marcella Zanki

Maéva Lecoq

Angela Burón

Submit via our Flickr group or mail to [email protected] and find more IYL updates on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter!