For my second outside experience I got the opportunity to attend Dr. Jackson Katz’s lecture, presented as part of Miami’s “It’s On Us” week. Focusing predominantly on the need for a focal shift in the context of gender violence, much of his talk centered around domestic violence and power imbalances, both within relationships and in a broader societal sense. The themes of domestic violence tie directly in with topics discussed in chapter five, centering around rape, coercion within a romantic relationship. One of Dr. Katz’s main points was how domestic violence, traditionally viewed as a woman’s issue, is in all actuality deeply impactful to men as well. He exemplified this by giving the anecdotal story of a young boy exposed to an abusive
