‘I Must Know’: Re-membering Native Women in the CAVNET_IW Community
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In both United States and Canadian mainstream news, the disproportionate rate of sexual violence against Native/American Indian, Alaska Native, and First Nations women is consistently underreported. Indeed, as Amnesty International concluded in April 2007 Ybanez , Vicki . Message #4177 . 12 April 2007 . [Google Scholar], despite centuries of brutalisation of Indigenous women, and even with the recent addition of its own one-hundred-thirteen pages of documentation of “many incidents of sexual violence against American Indian and Alaska native women[,]…the great majority of stories remain[s] untold.” At the same time, Indigenous women have been asserting their own stories around the trauma of violence in ways that work toward making whole what colonialism attempts to systematically dismember. One particularly powerful venue of re-membering the piecemeal and partial representations of violence against Native women in mainstream U.S. news is the U.S.-based internet community CAVNET_IW (Communities Against Violence Network – Indigenous Women), whose formation, intentions, and practices serve as a potent counter-narrative to the mainstream news media's consistent efforts to render Native women's stories invisible and insignificant. As a site that not only disseminates news about violence against Indigenous women but creates a forum for women to tell their own stories, CAVNET_IW has fashioned a potential safe space through which immediate and historical trauma affecting Native women paves pathways to personal healing and political change. At the same time, CAVNET_IW, a carefully monitored discussion space requiring member sign-up and message screening before posting, paradoxically works to end violence and heal trauma by necessarily circulating life stories that keep episodes of traumatic violence constantly present in the consciousness of CAVNET_IW members.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it