Gender-Based Violence: How crisis affects it and current prevention approaches

I started looking into this topic in November 2020. The main focus was understanding the subject area in its complexity, and understanding the new challenges the pandemic brings for both victims of violence and people working against it. During my research I became aware of how the discourses on staying are rarely mentioned about victims of domestic abuse, human trafficking or children in abusive homes.

Home is a romanticised term that easily lets us forget how many people do not have a safe home. The connotation of ‘staying home’ started to irritate me, and this is why I made this video.

In the video a woman is covering up a black eye following a superficial YouTube tutorial on ‘How to cover up a black eye’. This is contrasted by the NHS adverts that show people sitting in their living rooms with their loved ones or playing video games. One advert invites the reader to try some baking. I wonder how misrepresented people in danger must feel when they see that.