In addition to clearly naming intimate partner violence we need to be clear that this is FEMICIDE.

Femicide has increased in Canada since 2020. We know this because a group of women became curious as they observed the happenings in the world and began to track and do research to find out if their observations had value. What they discovered is disturbing and is the reason that feminism is important and essential work. It frees women from the harmful ideas attached to womanhood that rob women of the right to exist and to LIVE as autonomous free beings who bring equitable value to the world as WOMEN.

The femicide watch does not include the data for women who continue to live with intimate partner violence. Each victim named is a woman who was murdered by their partner or another male because of our systemic unhealthy ideas of women’s obligation to submit to male rulership which is subliminally translated as ownership.