Lizzy Ray

Title

Lizzy Ray (Abstract)

Interviewee/ Narrator

Lizzy Ray

Lizzy Ray

Lizzy Ray

Interviewer

Kaila Seger

Date

October 28, 2023

Location of the Interview

ATC Study Room C in the basement of Jessie Ball Dupont Library, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Length

36 minutes, 8 seconds

Abstract

Lizzy Ray was born in 2004 in Durham, North Carolina. She moved around a few times while growing up and currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina. The interview starts with a discussion of Lizzy’s various places of residence throughout her life and her experiences with her community as well as where she has traveled before. She describes how her travel all over the U.S has gotten her involved and interested in different art cultures from all over the world. She later discussed how she gets her news sources from primarily center or left leaning sources, but reads or watches most news sources to see what people on each side has to say about current events or issues as well. She describes the impact and importance of social media had on how she received word of the Black Lives Matter Movement and how it aided her community to organize and act. She discusses how the Black Lives Matter has changed the way that she interacts with some people in the sense of correcting racist remarks and changing how she interacts with White men in power.
Lizzy speaks on how the Black Lives Matter Movement has succeeded by getting people's voices out there, raising awareness to modern day issues, and being a way that many young people have gained their voices through. She then touches on how every movement has its failures, discussing violent outbreaks that happened during some of the Black Lives Matter Movement protests that many news media outlets obsess over and highlight. She does note that she wishes that the Black Lives Matter Movement does not need a future because she hopes that we can solve the issues that the Movement is aiming to remedy. She finishes the interview with a few more remarks about the importance of social media for the Black Lives Matter Movement, specifically the use of phone cameras paired with the ability to upload those pictures and videos to social media sites.