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The insight that "systems of oppression need to change and be fixed, not those being oppressed" is so vital.  Thank ou, Ariana, for writing here, and also for sharing the powerful blog post you wrote last year on these issues.  I appreciate your work so much, and also believe it is very important to document and archive -- as well as continue to introduce into public discourse -- your writings, our writings on these devastating matters.  In a way parallel to Grace's post above, you show deep connections between victim-blaming people sometimes don't connect (ie, racial profiling and slut shaming).  

My question is this: how can our systems of education, community, and public discourse be strong enough to get the gaze off blaming the victim or fixing the victim, and get working on transforming the oppressive systems?  Where do you see spaces for solidarity and support?  Would you like to work on this via Africana Studies this year, for example?