Amanda Kijera traveled to Haiti following the devastating 2010 earthquake. She began writing an editorial to refute international news reports claiming that Haitian men were brutalizing and raping displaced women. As she later explained, she felt these reports unfairly stereotyped Black men as "violent savages," and she wanted to protect the image of those she considered her "brothers" in a mutual struggle against oppression.
Before she could finish writing her piece, Kijera was cornered on a rooftop in Haiti and repeatedly raped by a local man. Her Response and the "Patriarchal Society" Statement. Following the assault, Kijera published a widely read article titled "We Are Not Your Weapons – We Are Women".
In her essay and subsequent commentary on social platforms, she explicitly stated that she did not put the primary blame on the individual rapist himself. Instead, she wrote that the perpetrator was a casualty of a "patriarchal culture" and a broken societal structure that conditions men to view women as property or weapons.
Her stance sparked significant global debate, drawing both praise for her structural focus and intense criticism from other feminists and human rights advocates who argued she was deflecting personal accountability away from a rapist.
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