J'accuse

How ecocide married sexual violence

“Tolstoy & I July 1, 2025,” 10”x8” Aviva Rahmani drawing on printed page.

This short essay will argue for a connection between ecocide and femicide, particularly of black and brown women, whose mortality from restricted access to reproductive rights is well-documented. I charge this mortality is a deliberate sexual crime to effect ecocide. Casting a blind eye to that connection is a fatal flaw in civil disobedience as resistance to fascism. Recognizing that link could broaden and deepen a constituency for change. The required change is to a society grounded in compassion rather than the acquisition of power.