The Guardian
Femicides in the US: the silent epidemic few dare to name
The death of Gabby Petito draws attention to a form of widespread gendered violence in the US that has long been hiding in plain sight A woman with a red hand painted on her face, which calls attention to the high rates of Indigenous women who are murdered or missing. Photograph: Kevin Mohatt/Reuters The last week of July, as Gabby Petito and her fiance, Brian Laundrie, posted Instagram photos of themselves hiking barefoot in Utah’s Canyonlands national park, bronzed skin matching apricot-colore