Settle for Less Missing Women

In 2004, Gwen Ifill described the media focus on missing White women as Missing White Woman Syndrome, but what coverage have missing women of color received since then?

Grassroots efforts (such as Our Black Girls, a site dedicated to telling the stories of the missing, murdered, and mistreated) exist, and larger scale efforts such as HBO's Black and Missing have been produced. But, White women continue to dominate press coverage.

CNN mentioned Gabby Petito’s case 346 times during a single week

400 Indigenous women and girls went missing in Wyoming—the same state where Gabby Petito disappeared—between 2011 and 2020 - August 2022 American University

Gabby Petito's story is important because it highlights all the signs that were ignored and that ultimately led to her death, but her story is not the only story.

May 5th is National Awareness Day for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), are your news sources covering it? If not, it's time to support a different source. If your media source is not covering Indigenous women, who else are they forgetting about?

Settle for less missing women by listening to all the stories and not supporting media that only tells some stories - some is not enough!