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We’ve loved seeing our feeds flooded by gorgeous black and white pictures of many of you, but do you know the origins of the black and white photo challenge?
originally started to raise awareness for the current femicides occurring in Turkey, where women’s black & white photos are shown on news outlets after being murdered. Sad to see that the original message has been mostly lost.
In July alone, 40 women have been murdered so far.
Then came ̈ltekin - a 27 year old student who was beaten and strangled to death by her ex boyfriend who then burned her body and covered it in cement.
Her attacker was found and arrested due to social media coverage.
The horrific nature of Pınar’s death and the entitled attitude of her killer generated widespread anger in Turkey. Many pop and sports stars, politicians and ordinary members of the public have expressed their outrage at the murder on social media, with Pınar Gültekin’s name trending for several days.
Women began sharing black and white photos on social media last week to protest domestic violence and Femicide. The photos are to represent the b&w photos of murdered women which appear in the newspapers on a daily basis. The message behind the campaign is: it could be any one of us.
Women have taken to the streets in Istanbul and other cities to protest the rising violence against women in the country, which on average results in at least one woman a day murdered in Turkey.
Data provided by women’s activist body 'We Will Stop Femicides Platform' shows a significant rise in the number of women killed in Turkey.
In 2013 the total was 237, rising to 294 in 2014.
303 women were murdered in 2015, 328 in 2016, 409 in 2017, and 440 in 2018.
A total of 474 women were killed in Turkey in 2019, a rise of 200% since 2013.
It is thought at least 146 women have been killed in the first six months of 2020.
Unfortunately the original hashtags related to this challenge were lost.Can you please use these as you continue to post?





Please, share her story and her photo as well.
Thank you so much for passing the love Melissa Koller Krista Marianino and thanks for shedding a light on the origin of this challenge Daniela Bella. We thought this challenge was pretty rad as it is already, but it makes it so much more meaningful knowing what’s behind it, especially with a sister/aunt who’s half Turkish, we love you Miete-meryem Dierick and wish you an amazing wedding day this weekend!!!

It's that simple 🤷🏻‍♀️

**kracism

To quote amazing mama, : “silence is violence even when it’s trendy” and that’s why we’re replacing our black square from earlier this week with some social media posts that really resonated with us instead. There are 10 in total, apologies for taking up all this space.
We understand that we will never understand, but we stand in solidarity with the black community and are opening our hearts and minds to learn how we can help.
I think the kindest thing we can do right now as parents is to tell our kids the uncomfortable truth about racism. We might think that not talking about it is the nice thing to do, keeping them innocent, but being nice will not help Ella and other children grow into kind and responsible human beings. Just this mama’s 2 cents, because I stand with Monique when she says that there’s no innocence for a white child born into whiteness when a system of white supremacy is in place.
**kracism
Laurens Kusters