Assignment Description:

Using Andrea Ritchie's Invisible No More, our class discussed the policing of gender lines, disability, and Black girls, as well as police sexual violence. We discussed the ways in which Black cisgender and transgender women are historically scripted as deviant, deranged "problem bodies," and so are more susceptible to hypersurveillance and police violence. The goal of the zine assignment is to use Ritchie to work in groups to create an 8-page social justice zine that highlights the invisibility of Black women and girls—including Black transwomen and gender nonconforming Black women—in conversations regarding anti-Black police violence.