by Matt Peters Content advisory: Discussions of sexual violence and other interpersonal violence The abbreviation MMIW, short for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, was created to name an ongoing crisis affecting indigenous people in North America.(1) In the United States, Native American women are overrepresented in homicide and missing persons cases compared to non-Native women. In some Native American communities, women are murdered at a rate 10 times higher than the national average. In the U.S., challenges related to law enforcement and criminal justice have been a major driver of the crisis, in particular when non-Native perpetrators commit… Read More
Dragonslippers: This Is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like
By Dr Elżbieta Klimek-Dominiak Lockdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic brought renewed public attention to the rise in the level of intimate partner violence (Peitzmeier et al., 2022). Scholars have already established in the 1970s that domestic violence is a gendered phenomenon and that it predominantly affects women (Walker, 1979). The World Health Organisation continues to identify violence against women (including intimate partner violence and sexual violence) as “a major public health problem and violation of women’s human rights” (WHO ”Violence Against Women”). WHO estimates that approximately 30% of women worldwide were affected by it and 27% of them experienced… Read More