Endo Violence Clinix

Endo Violence Clinix explores the intersection of art, health and community change.

THE FRAMEWORK

WHAT IS ENDO VIOLENCE?

Endometriosis affects around 1 in 10 people with a uterus. It takes, on average, nearly nine years to diagnose. 47% of people with the condition visited their GP ten or more times before receiving a diagnosis. This is not bad luck or individual misfortune. It is the result of systemic neglect, underfunding, and gendered dismissal. That’s what we’re here to name.

The endo violence framework was developed collectively — with and by people living with endometriosis — to make visible the multiple forms of harm that surround a diagnosis. Medical, epistemic, relational, digital, environmental, economic, structural. These forms of violence are not separate; they compound each other.

Endo Violence Clinix brings this framework into physical space — as an art exhibition, an artivism space, and a site of collective action. The artists and activists involved use art as method: not decoration, but a way of making visible what institutions refuse to acknowledge. Come to see the work. Come to make something. Come to think together about what resistance looks like.