Vivirlatino has a brilliant piece by La Macha deconstructing how nationalism trumps violence against women when it comes to reporting on violence against women in immigrant communities. She writes,
(T)his is what happens when people (more than likely men, although the author of that article was a woman), decide that “citizenship” and “questions of citizenship” are more important than understanding and dealing with violence against women. The women who are violated are completely erased from the story or become little more than the vessels that carry the more important story of “how are we going to catch us some alienz?”
Point taken and it is valid not only within our borders but also in our foreign policy. Time and time again it has been made all too clear that the lives of Afghan and Iraqi women as well as women in our own military count far less than our perceived national interest. Please read the entire piece, it is a chilling tale.
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