Teen Vogue asked Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, adrienne maree brown, Kelly Hayes, Dean Spade, and more about how to keep going under the strain of a second Trump administration.
Source: Teen Vogue
This summer marks five years since the 2020 uprising for Black lives — an anniversary that feels especially resonant right now, as protesters in cities like Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered by police, stand up against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and the Trump administration’s deportation spree.
For days now, protesters in Los Angeles have been fighting the Trump administration’s mass-deportation efforts, while the president sent in the National Guard (as he did in 2020) and 700 Marines. The fight and the backlash to it have spread to cities across America: There’s footage of a protester with cops kneeling on their neck in Philadelphia; arrests in New York City, Chicago, Dallas, and Atlanta; and thousands upon thousands more taking to the streets. ICE is reportedly sending tactical agents to five Democratic-run cities.
As we noted in Teen Vogue‘s running series United States of Suppression, which was launched last year, the mass protests in 2020 marked the start of an era of increased criminalization of protesters. Throughout 2024, as police swarmed college campuses and deployed tear gas against students demonstrating opposition to the war in Gaza, I thought of 2020.
