The aestheticization of #BreonnaTaylor is unacceptable. It is not radical to make her image decorative. There is a complex art/history re: decorative concealing violence. Are beautiful images dignity—or justice? Is her family being compensated for the use of her image?

I honestly think we get confused when we see these images because we feel some sense of kinship with them - it is *so rare* to see quotidian everyday representation of ppl ESP a Black / femme ‘ordinary’ with such visibility that we laud the presence + production of these images

We get confused + disoriented + feel pacified (bc that’s what the decorative does!) but what is the message we send when we accept these images as ‘justice’, in lieu of recognising them as overdue acknowledgement of dignity we are due not in our death, but in our ordinary life?

Demand more! We deserve more than a dignity campaign of the decorative!