Jennifer Bitterly
Bio:
Jennifer Bitterly is a freelance journalist based in Bogotá, Colombia. With professional experience in immigration law, she focuses her writing on migration, gender equity, and LGBTQIA+ rights. She can be reached at JenniferBittrly on Twitter.
WMC Women Under Siege
August 21, 2020 | Jennifer Bitterly |
Gender-based violence,
International,
Media,
Race/Ethnicity,
Violence against women
'They sell the tragic story instead of the critique': Colombian Media’s Coverage of Sexual Violence
While Colombian media covers stories of sexualized violence in almost exploitative detail, it fails to highlight the victims’ ethnicity and race, thereby following a long tradition of obscuring who in the country is disproportionately victimized, as well as hiding the underlying structural causes that leave them most vulnerable.
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