On violence against women and gender non-conforming persons with Dr. Treva B. Lindsey and Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter Replay Event - Click Here Disproportionate violence at home, at school, on the job, in their neighborhood as well as institutionalized racism, racial profiling and police brutality, and incarceration rates far exceeding their share of the population: these are the experiences of Black women in this country. A 2017 report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research found that more than four in ten Black women experience physical intimate partner violence; they also experience higher rates of psychological abuse and more than 20% are raped during their lifetimes. The Human Rights Council’s 2020 report on fatal violence against the transgender and gender non-conforming community found the majority of these victims were Black. Dr. Treva B. Lindsey’s upcoming book America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and The Struggle For Justice explores the combined force of anti-Blackness,...