The financial fallout of American gun violence profoundly impacts both victims and survivors. While employers, insurance companies, and victim compensation programs provide some support for navigating this fallout, many look to private channels—such as crowdfunding—to supplement these often-inadequate resources. We ask: How do those seeking material support on behalf of murdered women and girls assert worthiness and frame claims for restitution in the aftermath of gun violence? On whose behalf is material support requested, and what kinds of support are solicited? Using scholarship on digital sharing economies and the literature on gendered racialization to understand how broader systems of social inequality shape who seeks support and how, we examine GoFundMe crowdfunding campaigns in California and Florida from 2016 through 2018. We find that gendered-racialized strategies of solicitation in campaigns shape how victims are presented as deserving of support. This reinforces a distorted vision of gun violence, with campaigns emphasizing white women and girls as victims through calls for public grief, whereas campaigns for Black and Latinx women and girls frame loss as private trouble.

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慈善的根源：性别种族化如何影响为被枪支暴力杀害的妇女和女孩提供众筹


美国枪支暴力的经济后果对受害者和幸存者都产生了深远的影响。尽管雇主、保险公司和受害者赔偿计划为应对这一后果提供了一些支持，但许多人寻求私人渠道（例如众筹）来补充这些经常不足的资源。我们要问：那些为被谋杀的妇女和女孩寻求物质支持的人如何在枪支暴力发生后证明自己的价值并提出赔偿要求？代表谁请求物质支持？请求什么类型的支持？利用数字共享经济方面的学术成果和性别种族化方面的文献，我们研究了 2016 年至 2018 年在加利福尼亚州和佛罗里达州开展的 GoFundMe 众筹活动。我们发现，性别种族化的募集策略在宣传活动中，如何塑造受害者值得支持的形象。这强化了对枪支暴力的扭曲看法，运动通过呼吁公众哀悼强调白人妇女和女孩是受害者，而针对黑人和拉丁裔妇女和女孩的运动则将损失视为私人麻烦。