Caro || Issue 2
In this issue: more music, a style editorial (Adventures of a Girl in the World) and Resources on Michael Brown/Ferguson. -- caro is a perzine in the truest sense: a public journal, an outlet, and a voice.
In this issue: more music, a style editorial (Adventures of a Girl in the World) and Resources on Michael Brown/Ferguson. -- caro is a perzine in the truest sense: a public journal, an outlet, and a voice.
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Lette Fro h Editor<br />
Originally this issue was going to be<br />
cutesy, fun, pastel… everything typifying a<br />
Carefree-Black-Girl/Manic-Southern-Colored-Pixie/<br />
All-Natural-Cocoa-Butter-Heaux * /Whatever-the-<br />
Fuck we QuirkyBlackGirls are calling ourselves<br />
now. However the events of the past month in New<br />
York, Ferguson, have altered the direction I wanted<br />
to take <strong>Issue</strong> 2.<br />
This magazine will still be cutesy and<br />
pastel because this is my zine and that’s who I am,<br />
but... I need to grapple with a few issues here, like:<br />
what does it mean to be Black Girl in the World,<br />
when violence is a constant threat from those who<br />
are supposed to be peacekeepers, from those who<br />
are supposed to serve and protect? When there’s<br />
little to no recourse to hold law enforcement accountable?<br />
When the media puts Black and Brown<br />
victims of violence on trial,<br />
instead of the ones who kill them? When police<br />
and vigilante violence against women of color is<br />
ignored? What next?<br />
The next piece you will see (What Happens to<br />
a Broken Heart) best reflects the state of my psyche.<br />
I can’t go to Ferguson stand with my brothers<br />
and sisters, but I’m doing what I can to speak for<br />
Michael Brown in the face of these… heartless unempathetic<br />
white people (white Christians being
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