Garfield Heights Police searching for missing 15-year-old girl
GARFIELD HEIGHTS, OH (WOIO)
Authorities are asking anyone with information about the girl to call
216-475-5840.
The problem of missing youth of color is about many things at once. It
is about the racial disparities of Amber Alerts and media concern for
missing girls. It is about the racialized constructions of what a victim
looks like. It is about the devaluation of girls of color. It is about
the conflation of sex work with survival sex with human trafficking. It
is about domestic violence and child abuse. It is about transphobia and
homophobia. It is about poverty. It is about housing and homelessness.
It is about living in a country that is unsafe for girls, and deeply
unsafe for girls of color, and LGBTQIA+, and disabled youth.
To learn more about the disparate media attention on missing white girls vs. missing girls of color, see here, here, and here.
