these obscene questions

Here's the thing.  Here's what it comes down to:

A White man does not get to call "obscene" an account, authored by a Black woman, of the emotional fallout of the ubiquity of sexual violence against girls and women.

A White man does not get to call a Black woman's hurt "obscene."

It's obscene for a man to censor women's unceasing trauma because that trauma is "obscene."  That trauma is perpetrated and perpetuated by men empowered by the very White supremacist patriarchy that also empowers this particular censoring White man.

did you hurt a woman today
i have to ask these obscene questions
the authorities require me to
establishimmediate cause
every three minutes
every five minute
severy ten minutes
every day.
-- Ntzoke Shange, from "with no immediate cause"