The Long Shadow of Lynching in 2017

Waning Explores the Metaphorical Resonances Between Lynching, Abortion, and Queer Love in 2017by Rich SmithSeattle playwright, actor, and dancer Kamaria Hallums-Harris didn't know what she was going to write for her senior thesis project at Cornish College of the Arts. But when George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin, her mission clarified.As the Zimmerman case unfolded on the news, she began to wonder whether black women were being killed by police as often and for the same reasons that