Ten Little ~~Nigger~~ Girls is a retelling of a children’s book that was written in 1907 by Nora Case, a British author. The children’s book is comprised of racist stereotypes about black people, particularly black children. The story, which unfolds as a nursery rhyme, features a cast of ten black girls, who are each eliminated one-by-one, and sometimes in horrific ways (for example, one of the black girls is burned alive while making toffee, another is eaten by a bear). As a response to and revision of the original children’s book, artist Imo Imeh’s series of drawings features contemporary black girls in various states of danger, in the present-day. With each drawing, he seeks to examine the language, history, and realities of ongoing racial subjugation in America, the invisibility of young black people, and the misfortune of how we collectively decide the degree to which we ought to place value on the lives of black children. _Suicide Girl _addresses the issue of suicide—both in the literal sense, and in the more conceptual sense—of black girls. Here, the main subject is a black girl who appears in two instances—first as a figure who has just decapitated a girl, and second as the face of the decapitated girl. The two subjects are one in the same. Here, I recall the the story of Perseus and Medusa from Greek Mythology, in which Perseus, the hero, sets out on an expedition to execute the gorgon named Medusa, a monster who bears a crown of live venomous snakes on her head, and whose appearance turns any onlooker into stone. I was interested in the hero/monster concept, as I contemplated the problem of suicide. In this case, the black girl, who sees herself as the gorgon—the monster—performs the only heroic act she can think of—her own death, by decapitation. In committing suicide, the black girl assumes both the position of heroine and monster.