ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to offer a collocation of COVID-19 alongside two adjacent calamities that will likely increase during and after public health responses to the pandemic: suicide and femicide. Both of these forms of violence are patterned and predictable, both of them will manifest in divergent and distinct ways during the chaos of COVID-19, and both are highly gendered. In this article, we characterize the virus, theoretically align suicide and femicide as preventable forms of violence due to the circumstances of the pandemic, and suggest a way forward. We assert that suicide rates will increase for women and girls to unprecedented levels as a direct result of pandemic public health measures and it is also our contention that the gendered impact of COVID-19 will lead to an upsurge in another harm induced by the global health order to stay at home: femicide. In a landscape of competitive catastrophe, we call attention to two social facts that kill: suicide and femicide, and we urge global leaders to attend to prevention now, because for many women and girls, even though we have found a vaccine, it may be too late.

摘要

本文的目的是提供 COVID-19 与两种相邻灾难的搭配，这两种灾难在公共卫生应对大流行期间和之后可能会增加：自杀和杀害女性。这两种形式的暴力都是有规律的和可预测的，在 COVID-19 的混乱期间，它们都将以不同和不同的方式表现出来，并且都具有高度的性别特征。在本文中，我们描述了该病毒的特征，在理论上将自杀和杀戮女性视为由于大流行的情况而可预防的暴力形式，并提出了前进的方向。我们断言，作为大流行性公共卫生措施的直接结果，妇女和女童的自杀率将增加到前所未有的水平，而且我们还认为 COVID-19 的性别影响将导致全球健康引发的另一种伤害激增为了待在家里：杀戮女性。在竞争性灾难的背景下，我们提请注意两个致命的社会事实：自杀和杀害女性，我们敦促全球领导人现在就开始预防，因为对于许多妇女和女童来说，尽管我们已经找到了疫苗，但它可能为时已晚。