Ugliness as Colonial Violence: Mediations of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women
Alternate Title
On the Politics of Ugliness
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Author/Creator
Katherine Morton
Description
An examination of the politicization of "ugliness" through colonial ideology that creates victim blaming of Indigenous women that experience violence. These ideals of "ugliness" has led to the increase violence of Indigenous women and allowed inaction against crimes committed against them.
Chapter from On the Politics of Ugliness edited by Sara Rodrigues and Ela Przybylo.