As I sit here tabulating the death count of horror films along racial and gender lines it can begin to feel ridiculous and unimportant but that just isn’t true - it is important. How blackness is represented in the media, be it news or in film, has a direct correlation between how black people are treated in real life.

Negative tropes that encourage a casual disregard of black womanhood manifest in the mistreatment of high profile black women like Ilhan Omar, Diane Abbott and Michelle Obama as well as everyday black women like me, my friends and the women in my family.

When you have no visibility and very little representation in media like black women who are trans and/or disabled you are further marginalised and your mistreatment in everyday life is exacerbated.

How Jordan Peele’s Us centres black women in horror