Stereotypes of violence, abuse, and assault in our communities- Part I
http://silentmarks.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/stereotypes-of-violence-abuse-and-assault-in-our-communities-part-i/10/7/2008
I would like to talk about an article I recently discovered in the 2006 September/October issue of Colorlines Magazine. The article, Closeted violence: Abuse between queer women of color, by Celina R. De Leon is an attempt to discuss the hidden issue of violence in queer women of color communities. In any type of intimate relationship there are problems, and while heterosexual IPV is now out there in the mainstream, being discussed and studied, there is less publicity and less work around queer communities, especially queer of color communities. De Leon and other scholars who have conducted interviews with countless survivors and former agressors suggest that the reasons behind this double silence may have be heavily influenced by homophobia and racism.
