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Tracing External Narrative

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To control the narrative of your own life is to exercise a facet of agency—but such narrative control becomes precarious when an individual chooses to engage in such work as activism. In trying to bring awareness to a range of social issues, many of the people associated with the Ferguson protests found themselves and their narratives being articulated from the perspective of external sources: people, news publications, online posts. I've found that such articulations became even more prevalent after the deaths of these activists. Here, I would like to trace some of the themes that emerged from studying these external narratives as a collective. 


From MarShawn's friends and family, their online posts and media interviews were and are opportunities for them to remember MarShawn and commemorate the work that he did. These posts speak to a continuation of MarShawn's legacy in regard to his activism, and also in regard to the person that he was in his identity that was so closely linked to his work. 



 

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