This love letter demands a softness and beauty for the Black womxn of Chicago.

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By Sarah Oberholtzer

This love letter demands a softness and beauty for the Black womxn of Chicago. After an inhumane Chicago Police Department raid of a Black woman’s home, Sarah Oberholtzer created this piece as a salve for the Black womxn in their life, most of whom seemed widely heartbroken & traumatized by the viral video shared of the raid. The piece also offers a call to action to donate to the Black Girl Freedom Fund, which is a campaign to mobilize $1 billion of investments in the leadership, wellbeing, joy, artistic genius, and power of Black girls and gender-expansive youth. Learn more about the find at 1billion4blackgirls.org.

Authors

  • Sarah Oberholtzer is a filmmaker, educator, and community organizer invested in telling stories that allow audiences to imagine alternative futures that support BIPOC communities. In their role as Program Manager at Sisters in Cinema, they have the opportunity to support Black women and gender nonconforming media makers across the country. They have made many works for local Chicago advocacy campaigns including their most recent piece Love Letter to Chicago’s Black Womxn made in collaboration with the national Black Girl Freedom Fund. As an educator, they were nationally recognized by PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs as the August 2019 Connected Educator of the Month. The city-wide PBS program Chicago Tonight also broadcasted a story highlighting their classroom and their students’ work. They received a bachelor’s degree in Radio, Television + Film from Northwestern University.