ABSTRACT
A Black Woman Died at the Intersection(ality) Today is a fictional piece about the objectification of Black women. It explores the different ways in which Black women die (literally and figuratively) unnecessarily because people exoticize their suffering instead of offering help. In the piece, the body of a bleeding Black woman lies at a busy intersection for four hours, ironically at a place called Freedom Square. After her death, her ancestor (known as The Grandmother), and her chief oracle, is appalled to learn about her death, while many people are camping in a semi-circle, salivating over her bleeding body and theorizing about her death. The Grandmother performs a traditional ceremony to cleanse the woman’s body and prepare her for her afterlife as a guardian angel to other Black women. The fictional piece tries to capture how, when a Black woman is dying, many people who claim to be in solidarity with her are often not willing to save her from a painful and premature death.
