Collected Item: “Custom Black Lives Matter Masks”
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Custom Black Lives Matter Masks
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Instagram post
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This is an Instagram post by shopdashofk. This is a post on custom masks with the words "Black Lives Matter" and "I Can't Breathe" written on them. These masks are meant to send a message on racial disparities between Black people and those of other races. Writing messages on masks has been a trend across all political spectrums, with some choosing different slogans or symbols to use, in order to send messages much like the masks featured here. This evokes some of the larger culture surrounding mask wearing in general, where they have been used much like graphic t-shirts to say messages people want heard. It is a new social phenomenon that has come with the pandemic, and it is still popular among some people.
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social justice, Black Lives Matter, I Can't Breathe, racial justice, mask, custom mask, ASU, HST580
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
shopdashofk
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2022-04-11