Breathe in and out, say their name: Renee Ater's Instagram-based Memorial "I Can't Breathe"

This is how Renée Ater, a public scholar and historian, began a personal blogpost on May 29, 2020, just four days after the murder of George Floyd. Three days later she took to Instagram, posting a simple black square with Floyd's name and life dates. Intended at first as a one-off post, an interruption to the too often rose-colored images that tended to occupy her social media feed, Ater soon shifted gears. What about all those other unarmed black and brown people that had been murdered by the police? Or those who, like Ahmaud Arbery and Trayvon Martin, had been victims of white men and lynching mobs? So she began to post names daily.