Porsha Olayiwola's spoken word masterpiece on Black women and police brutality

Nigerian-Chicagoan, Porsha Olayiwola in her spoken word poem explores the injustice of violence against black women and girls, and why we must show our outrage for black women victims.

Porsha who refer to herself as a "black, poet, dyke-goddess, hip-hop feminist, womanist" asks why conversations about police brutality and other forms of violence against black people tend to focus on men and boys?

"We stay unheard, blotted out, buried, dead," she said. "Black girls receive tombstones too soon and never any flowers to dress the grave. So we fight alone."

In Rekia Boyd, Porsha ask why do mainstream news outlets and black lives matter activists ignore police brutality against Black women compared to the Black men who were murdered by police under similarly peculiar circumstances.

"I guess all the protestors got tied up," Olayiwola said. "I guess all the black folks were busy making signs saying 'Stop killing our black boys.'"

Sit down someplace and watch the spoken word poetry below.

Okay Africa reported that her chapbook Porsha O. is expected to be released in July of this year.

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