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Saturday, December 17, 2022

Maybe the "collective" coping mechanism to make "entertainment" out of violence can change.

"Collectively, we have opted to view acts of violence through the lens of entertainment and as a result, we refuse to confront the violent realities located within our society."

~ Nicole Murdock

"Sensationalizing alleged killers will not bring our missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls home"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/opinion-mmiwg-serial-killers-1.6678088

"The list of MMIWG2S, however, has been growing for decades and our cries have gone unheard. Ambivalence abounds.

The deaths of Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and Buffalo Woman are all part of a much larger crisis that society has failed to take appropriate action on.

In Canada, Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people are intentionally targeted and disproportionately subjected to violence. We represent 28 per cent of women who are murdered, despite making up only four per cent of the population in Canada. We are 12 times more likely to be murdered or go missing than non-Indigenous women.

The rate at which we are murdered is more than seven times higher than that of non-Indigenous women (all of these stats are from the federal government's website). With the largest urban Indigenous population in the country, Winnipeg sits at the centre of the MMIWG2S crisis.

The violent reality is that our greatest threats remain at large within society."

~ Nicole Murdock

"Sensationalizing alleged killers will not bring our missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls home"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/opinion-mmiwg-serial-killers-1.6678088

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