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Shaping the Past Exhibition – A Long Walk Home’s Girl/Friends

The Chicago-based A Long Walk Home’s Girl/Friends empowers teen girls to use art to advocate for themselves and other girls by designing campaigns and policies to end dating violence, sexual assault, and street harassment in their schools and communities. Girl/Friends Anaya Patrice Frazier, Danielle Nolen, and Aliyah Young continue to work toward a collective goal of developing a permanent memorial project for Rekia Boyd and Black women/girls in Douglass Park, Chicago.

A Long Walk Home is a Chicago-based national nonprofit that uses art to educate, inspire, and mobilize young people to end violence against girls and women. Now undergraduate university students, Frazier, Nolen, and Young continue their work as artists and organizers to center the stories and perspectives of Black women and girls.

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Anaya Patrice Frazier, Danielle Nolen und Aliyah Young

Anaya Patrice Frazier, Danielle Nolen and Aliyah Young

Courtesy of the artists

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“Black Girl Takeover,” Douglass Park, Chicago, 2018

“Black Girl Takeover,” Douglass Park, Chicago, 2018

Courtesy of A Long Walk Home; Photos by Paul Farba (TOP LEFT) and Sarah Ji (TOP AND BOTTOM RIGHT)

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“A Long Walk Home March for Rekia Boyd,” Douglass Park, Chicago, 2016

“A Long Walk Home March for Rekia Boyd,” Douglass Park, Chicago, 2016

Courtesy of A Long Walk Home's Girl/Friends. Photo by Sarah Ji.

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A Long Walk Home

A Long Walk Home

Mit freundlicher Genehmigung von A Long Walk Home

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A Long Walk Home

A Long Walk Home

Courtesy of A Long Walk Home

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