‘American Diagnosis’: A Fuller Moon Rising — Revised ‘Violence Against Women Act’ Offers Hope [khn.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 3/18/229:00 AM

By Kaiser Health News, Illustration: Oona Tempest/KHN, Kaiser Health News, March 16, 2022

Mary Kathryn Nagle is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, an attorney, a playwright ― and an advocate working to increase protections for Native women in the U.S. justice system.

Not long after the Violence Against Women Act, or VAWA, was reauthorized in 2013, she sat with fellow activist Lisa Brunner to talk about a new play Nagle was working on in response to the ruling.

Brunner said she told the playwright that VAWA is just a “sliver of a full moon” of the protection Native women need.

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