Producing feminicide data has historically been an important feminist tactic to make gender-related violence visible and to draw attention to the lack of data from official sources. María Puig de la Bellacasa says, in relation to the production of knowledge, that “care” implies simultaneously the work of daily maintenance, an ethico-political commitment and the affective reconstruction of the relationship with our objects of study. In this line, this blog argues that making feminicide data is a labour of care, with its consequent emotional charge.
Suárez Val, H., Martinez Cuba, A., & D’Ignazio, C. (2022, junio 13). Datos de feminicidio, trabajo emocional y autocuidado. Backchannels 4S Blog. https://medium.com/data-feminism-lab-mit/datos-de-feminicidio-trabajo-emocional-y-autocuidado-fa0ba5daeb2b