[news] Young, Queer, Women of Colour Sent to Jail, Demonised by Media for Defending Themselves

Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed news at resist.ca
Tue Jul 3 11:40:31 PDT 2007


Four more Black girls just went bad. Young, 19 to 25; from..."troubled" families...[Y]ou've heard it all before. The reason you're reading about this bunch is that they're lesbians – "killer lesbians," "a wolf pack of lesbians," say the media. They're not martyrs or heroes; they did something stupid that got them sentenced to prison. They stood up for themselves.

  


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