Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla, University of Texas at San Antonio
Abstract: In this talk I will present a current special issue, "Re-Envisioning Gender-Based Violence Policy in the Americas," I am coediting with Dr. Rachel Quinn for the Journal of Sexuality, Gender and Policy. This special issue brings together the work of scholars in women’s, gender and sexuality studies, digital humanities, social sciences and cultural studies who are studying violence against women across contexts and borders, by examining how shifting policy across these specific neoliberal contexts shapes the vulnerabilities of women in each location. In order to impact policy, we must shift how we view data on feminicidios as a global phenomenon. To that end, this work considers digital activism by feminists documenting feminicidios in order to build digital archives, public resources and data visualizations and make accessible expanding data that otherwise goes unseen.
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