“It’s never true that *no one* is talking about a thing. It’s often true that *not enough* people are talking about a thing …,” anti-violence activist Mariame Kaba recently tweeted from her popular @prisonculture account.
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That is certainly true of sexual violence by police officers, described as something “no one talks about” in a recent piece on The Root. Kaba is just one black woman whose work was erased by this casual stroke of the keyboard: She has been talking about the issue of sexual violence by police for years. Most recently, she lifted up the case of Tiawanda Moore, a black survivor of domestic violence who attempted to report a sexual assault by the officer who responded to her call for help when her boyfriend was beating her.
Source: It’s Time to Listen to Black Women. We’ve Been Talking About Police Sexual Violence for a Long Time
