![]() But Black women did not disappear, and they will not disappear because we know something established power does not: we are something. Corporations often partner with government after natural. Thats why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. Black women resisted by showing up in the story of their lives, by loving, learning, and leading-despite the systemic barriers and humiliations designed to make them small enough to practically disappear. I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. government abandoned Black women, and it would not be the last. ![]() The response to Hurricane Katrina was not the first time the U.S. As a result, much of the city was destroyed and at least 6,000. In the early evening hours, a hurricane came ashore at Galveston bringing with it a great storm surge that inundated most of Galveston Island and the city of Galveston. Experts predict that in the next 20 years there will be much more hurricane activity than has been seen in the past 20 years. When deployed, people just look right through Black women as if they weren't there.Īs violent and silent as depresencing is, there's an antidote. On September 8, 1900, the greatest natural disaster to ever strike the United States occurred at Galveston, Texas. Steven Magee tags: after, caught, evacuations, florida-residents, grew, hurricane-ian, many, needed, off-guard, wary 0 likes Like The majority of hurricane Ian deaths were drownings, vehicle crashes, medical emergencies, falls and suicides. Unlike erasure, which requires one's presence to be recognized so it can be obliterated, depresencing never acknowledges presence at all. Every step of the Katrina response "depresenced" Black women, forced them to bear the weight of natural disaster while carrying the cellular memory of trauma one can imagine will pass through bloodlines like so many others. ![]() “The lexicon must make room for white patriarchy's specific way of disregarding the humanity of Black women in literal physical spaces like New Orleans during and after Katrina, and in the narratives and policy making that either created a pathway home or left them stranded. ![]()
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