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Author: Celeste Faison

Celeste Faison is co-executive director of the Movement for Black Lives, a national network of over 150 organizations creating a broad political home for Black people to learn, organize and take action.
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Survivor Trauma Cannot Be Treated as Just Another Bar in a Rap Battle

Celeste Faison

In the rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, serious accusations of violence against women and girls were repeatedly reduced to punchlines in these diss tracks.

We don’t deserve to see our experiences, especially our most painful ones, turned into punchlines.

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