ABSTRACT
This chapter makes inquiry into the marginalisation in Black Lives Matter protests of Black women victims of police killings and violence. Androcentric tendencies in the Black community and external narratives of racial bias are contextualised by explicating structural cultural narratives referred to as microstructural macroaggressions and posited as strategic manipulative tools that nullify the lived experiences of Black women. While macroaggressions are defined as participation in large oppressive systems (Gorski, 2014), I submit that these cultural manipulations exact the damage of brutal systems on a microstructural level, enshrining oppressive constructs that endanger Black women’s lives.
