Andrea J. Ritchie: Invisible no more (2017)
324 pages
English language
Published July 15, 2017
Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. Placing stories of individual women--such as Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall--in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, it documents the evolution of movements centering women's experiences of policing and demands a radical rethinking of our visions of safety--and the means we devote to achieving it.--Publisher website.
I learned that police brutality and sexual violence is far worse for women of color, and especially for transwomen of color. One of the points that stuck out to me was that there are these vague offenses like “disorderly conduct” which are applied in racially profiled ways because officers have so much power of interpretation.
