In July 2020, Megan Thee Stallion was shot. The vitriol directed towards her represented the ways certain kinds of Black women’s bodies do not effectively garner collective forms of grief, or the public expression of empathy toward someone who experiences tragedy or suffers harm. The lack of empathy shown by many toward Megan falls in line with the ways that Black women, girls, and femmes are frequently disregarded—their bodies marked as excessive, loud, disposable, and above all, deserving of whatever violence is exacted upon them. In this essay, I argue that Megan Thee Stallion was not, to some, an appropriate target for grief--she was ungrievable--because, as a ratchet Black woman who embodies a purposeful lack of regard for Black middle-class norms concerning gender and sexuality, she is seen as less deserving of sympathy by those holding racist ideas about Black women.

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Ratchet Black Lives Matter：Megan Thee 种马、种族间暴力和悲伤的逃避

2020 年 7 月，Megan Thee Stallion 被枪杀。针对她的尖刻讽刺代表了某些类型的黑人女性身体无法有效地获得集体悲伤的方式，或者对经历悲剧或遭受伤害的人的公开表达同情。许多人对梅根缺乏同情心，这与黑人妇女、女孩和女性经常被忽视的方式一致——她们的身体被标记为过度、喧闹、可随意支配，最重要的是，她们应该受到任何强加于她们的暴力。在这篇文章中，我认为 Megan Thee Stallion 对某些人来说不是悲伤的合适目标——她令人难以置信——因为，作为一个棘轮的黑人女性，她有目的地不尊重黑人中产阶级关于性别的规范和性欲，