On Breonna, Oluwatoyin, & Posthumous Iconography Of Murdered Black People

On Breonna, Oluwatoyin, & Posthumous Iconography Of Murdered Black People

The surviving family and friends of the dead are constantly accosted by aesthetically pleasing merchandised images of the people violently abducted from their lives. In the hands of social media, and opportunists, this tradition becomes another installment of a Ford-assembly line-like process of transforming a murdered Black person into a ubiquitous trademarked symbol of social justice. . . .