In 2016, years after requesting them, Rodney Barnette, a former Black Panther, received the 500 pages documenting his surveillance by the FBI. In 2017, Barnette's daughter, Sadie Barnette, lined the walls of Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York with photocopies of his file for her first solo show, Do Not Destroy. While many of the pages were treated with paint, glitter, and/or rhinestones, most were legible, the information kept secret for so long finally made public. Whose theorization of social movements' use of images does Do Not Destroy reflect?

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Nicholas Mirzoeff's theory of visual activism and the importance of creating and circulating images as a form of resistance and representation is reflected in Sadie Barnette's use of her father's FBI file as a source material to explore and challenge dominant narratives about Black Panther Party and the Black community.

In 2016, Years After Requesting Them, Rodney Barnette, a Former