Megan Thee Stallion is getting major support The Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium.

Southern Black Girls is a collective of philanthropists, activists and figures dedicated to ladies’ work, who’re rooted in creating movements, securing funding and providing resources for causes that affect women and girls.

Today, the organization focused its sights on Megan Thee Stallion and the conversation her name has sparked regarding violence toward Black women. In an open letter showing support for the Houston “Hot Girl,” leaders like Marc Lamont Hill, Tamika D. Mallory, Angela Rye, Bevy Smith, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, ‘Me Too’ founder Tarana Burke, and more denounced violence against women and condemned the best way our culture has treated the artist since she got here forward about her experience.

Read excerpts of the letter below:

Dear Megan,

You’re larger than life in some ways; your name is in lights, your face on billboards, your songs within the history books…and this continues to be just the start of your story. In a really short period of time, you’ve achieved success probably beyond your wildest dreams, and it appears that evidently every day brings a recent announcement about something amazing you’ve done or are preparing to do. Women all around the world consider you an inspiration, partly since you make them be ok with themselves. You’re a special type of talent and a special type of person; the place you hold in your fans’ hearts is a testament to that.

As you’ve risen to the highest, you’ve also needed to endure lots of obstacles along the best way. Within the face of triumph and tragedy alike, you usually keep your head held high, maintain your poise, and push forward. Nonetheless, while so lots of us have fun you in your strength and perseverance, it have to be said that you’ve been treated in ways in which no young woman–no one in any respect–must be treated.

It have to be said that our culture has failed you, one in every of its most brightly shining daughters. In July of 2020, you experienced a violation of the best order by the hands of somebody whom you considered a friend. Since then, you’ve needed to endure public harassment and taunting not only from that person but from others selecting to face with him. Bloggers have circulated rumors and excitedly reported on essentially the most traumatic experience of your life as if it were juicy gossip, often perpetuating the concept that you’ve got a reason to lie, that you just shouldn’t be believed. You’ve consistently been clear about what happened to you, but as an alternative of being met with widespread support, individuals who must have had your back have chosen to remain out of the matter.

You don’t deserve any of this, Megan. You need to be heard, to be believed, and most significantly, to be secure.

Violence against women continues to be entirely too common and acceptable in our world. We make excuse after excuse to elucidate away even essentially the most heinous acts, especially when the person accused is a star of any sort. Being a star, nevertheless, is not going to guarantee a girl any sympathy when she is a victim.

Black women are also often terrified of what is going to occur to their assailant in the event that they decide to involve the law–as you yourself were afraid to do–and are left unprotected by the system and the community alike. If someone as influential as you possibly can be belittled and mocked as nothing but a liar for standing up for herself, that speaks a volume about what a girl who doesn’t have your resources or fame can expect to endure when she’s found herself in an analogous position.

We salute you for the bravery it has taken to defend yourself within the court of public opinion, though you shouldn’t have needed to accomplish that in any respect. We raise our voices against those that have made light of this heinous example of violence against women and can drown them out with our demands for society to take what happens to Black women seriously. You usually are not alone. You’re believed, loved, and supported.

We stand with you Megan.