fss victim advocacy featured in perspectives on politics

After ten years of study, Doctor Regina Bateson has published an article on FSS -- Finding Meaning in Politics: When Victims Become Activists. She demonstrates how through activism, FSS’ grief-advocates can re-conceptualize the losses and harms they have suffered as policy problems, rather than random, inexplicable events. She also argues that political involvement offers FSS members unique ways of finding meaning in the tragedies victims have suffered. Finally, she shares how emotional benefits often arise during collective action and meaning-making is an in-process benefit of activism.