The 2023 Global Femicide Report, released jointly by UN Women and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, recorded a staggering 51,100 intentional killings of women and girls across the world that year. These killings were found to not only be overwhelmingly carried out by intimate partners or close family relatives but also to majoritarily occur in no other place than the victim’s home . Being confronted with the deep intimacy of both the home as a place of death and c

Among the many lessons that the genocide in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has exposed us to, a poignant one is the realization that wherever prolonged warfare exists, women suffer war wounds that only their bodies can speak to. From the trauma associated with resorting to period-delaying pills to escape the scarcity of wartime menstruation to elongated bleeding after giving birth, the women of Gaza are our living reminders that we are answerable to what happens to women