Intersectional Feminism and Media Portrayals of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in U.S. Cities
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
Ellensburg
Event Website
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source
Start Date
18-5-2020
Abstract
Living free from violence is a fundamental human right that all persons should be granted, but this is not the case for many Indigenous women in the United State (U.S.). Data from the Department of Justice (DOJ) (2008) demonstrate that Indigenous women are two and a half times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than other women, and Amnesty International (2007) reports that 86% of reported crimes against Indigenous women in the U.S. are committed by non-Native men. According to The National Crime Information Center, in 2016, there were 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls, of which, only 116 were logged in the DOJ database. In this work-in-progress, I present the statistics on media representation of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in 71 U.S. specified in the Urban Indian Health Institute’s 2018 report and situate them in a historical and ongoing context of settler colonialism and structural inequality. I do this by using an intersectional feminist lens and controlling images, outsider within, and politics of disposability as conceptual tools. College of the Sciences Presentation Award Winner.
Recommended Citation
Saied, Bayan, "Intersectional Feminism and Media Portrayals of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in U.S. Cities" (2020). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 122.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2020/COTS/122
Department/Program
Sociology
Additional Mentoring Department
https://cwu.studentopportunitycenter.com/2020/04/intersectional-feminism-and-media-portrayals-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls-in-u-s-cities/
Intersectional Feminism and Media Portrayals of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in U.S. Cities
Ellensburg
Living free from violence is a fundamental human right that all persons should be granted, but this is not the case for many Indigenous women in the United State (U.S.). Data from the Department of Justice (DOJ) (2008) demonstrate that Indigenous women are two and a half times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than other women, and Amnesty International (2007) reports that 86% of reported crimes against Indigenous women in the U.S. are committed by non-Native men. According to The National Crime Information Center, in 2016, there were 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls, of which, only 116 were logged in the DOJ database. In this work-in-progress, I present the statistics on media representation of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in 71 U.S. specified in the Urban Indian Health Institute’s 2018 report and situate them in a historical and ongoing context of settler colonialism and structural inequality. I do this by using an intersectional feminist lens and controlling images, outsider within, and politics of disposability as conceptual tools. College of the Sciences Presentation Award Winner.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2020/COTS/122
Faculty Mentor(s)
Griff Tester