Justice and Human Rights United States Project #35814

Help Moms of Slain Youth Tell Their Stories

by Unsilence

Project Report | Oct 4, 2019
UPDATE: Online Exhibition Design

By Dr. Danny M. Cohen | Unsilence Founder & Interim Executive Director

Thanks to your generous support, we are now starting the education design phase of our collaboration with The Sisterhood, a collective of Chicagoland mothers, all women of color, whose children have been killed by senseless gun violence.

Over the coming weeks, our dedicated Unsilence team of researchers and designers will be selecting key moments from the interview testimonies of a dozen mothers. The testimonies will be presented alongside photographic portraits of the mothers - photographed by artist Cecil McDonald Jr. - and turned into a new interactive online Unsilence exhibition. We aim create a learning tool for schools and communities that highlights both individual experiences and collective experiences of gun violence and its implications for families.

Our project goals: (1) To unsilence the personal and collective grief, trauma, activism, and healing of mothers of color. (2) To humanize their murdered children who are so often portrayed in a negative light in the media. (3) To help communities across Chicago talk about systemic violence. (4) To connect Chicagoland communities, because we’re in this crisis together and we can only solve it together.

We are so grateful for your support. We cannot unsilence injustice without you.

All my best,

Danny M. Cohen

Founder & Interim Executive Director of Unsilence

www.unsilence.org

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