Culture and Gender-Based Violence
Original post from Asian Pacific Institute on Gender Based Violence
“Cultural identities contain the histories of a people that include traditions, struggles, achievements, and triumphs. Cultures nourish pride, resilience, belonging, intersectional identities, and connection to community. But culture is used to justify gender violence and inequality by evoking traditional beliefs and practices about how women and girls should be treated. If culture defines the spaces within which power is expressed and gender roles are enshrined, then our movement is here to push back. After all, some traditions and explanations do have an expiration date and cultural DNA, just like individual DNA, changes with every generation.”
Resources compiled by APIGBV:
This report asks and analyzes some critical questions, forcing us to take a hard look at all the factors that have to come together to effect transformation.
This talk explores the connection between colonization and patriarchy, and how this dynamic perpetuates gender violence.
Culture does not reveal stable patterns, but dynamic ones where experiences and commonalities continually re-shape it.
How leveraging cultural stereotypes in court plays into already existing negative depictions of culture.
Use these training slides to enhance understanding of culture and cultural competency in domestic violence agencies.
Advocates and community members from Fresno convened to examine domestic violence within the context of gender equity and how it impacts Fresno’s Hmong community. Participants identified steps that communities and systems can take to raise awareness, improve service for survivors, and redefine gender values and practices.