#sayhername2016

7:00 to 8:00pm – Community drum circle hosted by S.H.I.N.E. Muwasi    (Traditional African Female Drum and Dance Alliance)

*****Please Be On Time***** On Thursday May 19th, BlackLivesMatter-ATL -BYP 100 in partnership with Black Lives Matter, Ferguson Action, and Project South - is calling for a National Day of Action to End State Violence Against Black Women, Girls, and Femmes. We live in a world where the dignity of Black people is denied through every interaction with the state. It is apparent that the lives of ALL Black people are under attack, however, the stories, experiences, and needs of Black women, girls, and femmes are left out all too often. And it is imperative that we work intentionally to bring them to the center. We must acknowledge the particular forms of violence experienced by our women, girls, and femmes. We must fight against the criminalization of Black victims of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and abuse. We must resist the policing of Black gender expression, sexuality, and bodies. We must condemn the passage and defense of gender discriminatory legislation. We must break down the narrow standards of respectable Black womanhood and femininity deemed acceptable. We must #SayHerName. Join the #BlackLivesMatter-ATL and Southerners On New Ground as we take action to make visible and amplify the attacks that are facing Black women, girls, and femmes. In Atlanta and all across the South we are seeing police and state violence push trans women in the shadows, deny Black mothers the right to raise our babies with safety and dignity, deny our access to abortion and criminalize and incarceration of our young. We are seeing the symptoms of white supremacy and patriarchy show up in the way interpersonal and sexual violence reck havoc in our homes and movements. Enough is enough...it's time to #sayhernameATL

On Thursday May 19th, BYP 100 - in partnership with Black Lives Matter, Ferguson Action, and Project South - is calling for a National Day of Action to End State Violence Against Black Women, Girls, and Femmes. We live in a world where the dignity of Black people is denied through every interaction with the state. It is apparent that the lives of ALL Black people are under attack, however, the stories, experiences, and needs of Black women, girls, and femmes are left out all too often. And it is imperative that we work intentionally to bring them to the center. We must acknowledge the particular forms of violence experienced by our women, girls, and femmes. We must fight against the criminalization of Black victims of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and abuse. We must resist the policing of Black gender expression, sexuality, and bodies. We must condemn the passage and defense of gender discriminatory legislation. We must break down the narrow standards of respectable Black womanhood and femininity deemed acceptable. We must #SayHerName From New York City to Detroit to Durham, join us we take action nationwide on May 19th. Join us as we we we do this for #Rekia. Join us as we do this for #Mya. Join us as we do this for #Aiyana. For #Islan. For #Marissa. For#Gynnya. Join BYP100: Durham Chapter and the #SayHerName Durham Collective! Program will be short so please don't miss it!

Demanding the Department of Justice stop ignoring the killing of black cis-women, trans* women, girls, and femmes

Thursday May 19th is the #SayHerName national day of action, a day to center the experiences of Black women, girls and femmes who have been killed by state violence or those who have exprienced it and survived. Murders like that of Sandra Bland in Texas, instances of non lethal police violence like the multiple shots fired at Tyshara Blouin here in New Orleans by JPSO, and the continued silence around state violence and Black women face have led to a call for this day of action for the 2nd year in a row. This year, join us in Congo Square in celebration, conversation, and commemoration for in and support of Black women, girls, and femmes. We'll be opening space for speakers, singing and chants, altar creation, and lifting up the voices & prismatic experiences of Black femmes, women, and girls who are or have been incarcerated; who are mothers, parents, adult supporters, caretakers; who are in lesbian, gay, queer, bisexual, asexual, and/or pansexual communities; who are transgender, genderfluid, gender non-conforming, and/or agender; who are poor; who are undocumented; who have disabilities of any & all kind; who are adults, youth, or elders; who are ancestors and who are community leaders; and so much more. Black women, girls, and femmes: take space; allies: make space. Nationally, folks will be engaging in actions, celebrations, healing spaces, and more that center the lives, experiences, and legacies of our Black girls, femmes, and women. Join us in Congo Square and always make sure to #SayHerName --- The national #SayHerName Day of Action was started last year when BYP100 - Chicago made a call to uplift the story of Rekia Boyd and the countless other Black women and girls who have been killed by state violence, then had their narratives erased from the #BlackLivesMatter movement by mainstream sources and at times, organizers themselves. The #SayHerName day of action is a call to center the particular ways state violence intersects with gender and race when it comes to Black women, girls and femmes. Last year, the New Orleans chapter of BYP100 along with a dozen other local organizations held a rally and vigil at the site of Penny Proud's murder along Clairborne Ave and demanded we #SayHerName and the names of other Black women and girls we have lost to state and structural violence. Join us this year for a Celebration, Conversation and Commemoration of Black women, girls, and femmes. #SayHerName #BlackLivesMatter -- Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) is an activist member-based organization of Black 18-35 year olds, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. We do our work through a Black queer feminist lens. www.byp100.org BYP100 - NOLA Chapter @BYP_100