The State As a Man: Colonial Legacies and the Failure in Addressing Violence Against Indigenous Women.
The Canadian government’s Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls reveals systemic failures, entrenched in colonial, heteropatriarchal frameworks that perpetuate violence. Anthropologists Audra Simpson and Paulina García-Del Moral argue that productive change requires acknowledging settler-state motives and dismantling structural domination
