Femicides
How ready is Greek society to accept the term “femicide”? Why has there been a surge in the phenomenon in recent years? How can we envision a near future where every woman and femininity feels safe – at home, at work, and in society at large? “Society Uncensored 02” opens with an issue that is weighty, multi-dimensional, and pressing – one threaded through the ages, but only now being looked at collectively and directly so that it can be confronted.
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Eleni on Rhodes, Angeliki on Corfu, Erato on Lesvos, Konstantina in Makrinitsa, Caroline in Glyka Nera, Garyfallia on Folegandros, Anisa in Dafni, Monica in Kyparissia, Dora on Rhodes, Xevrie in Alexandroupolis, and many more women have been murdered in Greece in recent years because they were women. Femicide is a socio-historical phenomenon that can be traced through the centuries. It is the killing of women, girls, and femininities because of their gender, within the setting of patriarchal power. It is an act that seeks to exercise societal control over the bodies and desires of women, and to punish women. Such murders are committed by men characterized by toxic masculinity who believe they have power of life and death over women, and constitute the upper extreme of gendered violence.
Given the urgency of this issue, Onassis Stegi’s “Society Uncensored 02” series presents an edition on femicide proffering experiences and testimonials, presenting qualitative and quantitative data from Greece and other countries, documenting the inadequacies and poor practices of gendered violence response mechanisms, shedding light on the intersectionality of the issue, analyzing the structural causes and escalations of abuse, and underlining the role to be played by society and the state when it comes to combatting and preventing femicide.
With the aid of audio-visual materials, data gathered from international stakeholders (Le Monde, the European Observatory on Femicide), and information graphics, the participants share knowledge and viewpoints drawn from the realms of science, feminism, field intervention, and embodied experience, that also carry the charge of collective trauma and the dream of transformation, so that we might all feel safe and free.
