When black women first began disappearing and turning up dead in my hometown of Peoria, Illinois, in the summer of 2003, I was completely oblivious. At the time, I was in law school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—which is to say, I was living only about 90 miles away from home during the course of the 15-month killing spree. Yet months would go by before I would come to know about what was happening to black women in my city. This would be the case even though many of those women hailed from the same South Side community where I had been raised from girlhood and where my parents continue to live, and even though I had known one of the disappeared women, Tamara “Tammy” Walls, personally.

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关于连环谋杀和真实犯罪：关于黑人女权主义研究实践和定居者殖民主义含义的一些初步思考

当黑人女性在我的家乡伊利诺伊州皮奥里亚（Peoria）刚开始失踪并死于2003年夏天时，我完全忘了。当时，我在伊利诺伊大学厄本那-香槟分校的法学院学习-也就是说，在15个月的疯狂杀戮过程中，我离家仅约90英里。然而，要过几个月之后，我才能了解我城市中黑人妇女的状况。即使许多妇女都是从我从小就被抚养长大的，并且我的父母继续生活的同一边的南边社区欢呼，即使我认识失踪的妇女之一，塔玛拉·“塔米”·沃尔姆斯，情况也是如此。 ， 亲自。