Say Her Name: Symposium

  • April 12, 2024
  • 8:30 AM - 6:30 CST
  • 1040 Grand Courtroom
  • Professor Cook, N/A
  • Free
  • Open to the public.
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    Inspired by the work of Kimberlé Crenshaw and the #SayHerName campaign, this symposium centers Black women and girls, killed by the police and whose deaths have been silenced, ignored, and forgotten. Using an interdisciplinary approach rooted in criminology, Critical Race Theory, and feminist/womanist thought, each speaker will answer Professor Crenshaw's clarion call - to confront, contest, and dismantle the interlocking systems of state power that continue to routinize and normalize the killing of Black women.

    This symposium will centralize the lives of twenty Black women to demonstrate how state actions and the pervasive influence of white supremacy, patriarchy, and economic exploitation converge on Black women and girls to normalize their deaths. More pointedly, this symposium will problematize racial profiling of these women, and the ways those profiles are used to cast them as inherently dangerous, suspicious, and in need of being controlled.

    We invite you to join us in this vital conversation where scholars, activists, and changemakers converge to challenge the status quo and envision a world where equity, justice, and liberation are not just ideals, but lived realities for everyone.

    Our symposium takes place on April 12, 2024, in the Power Rogers and Smith Ceremonial Courtroom, from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. This event is free and open to the public