“Why Not Us?”: Missing White Woman Syndrome and the Erasure Of Missing POC
By Grace Woodruff, Valerie Tseng, Hannah Anderson On September 11, 2021, 22-year-old travel vlogger Gabby Petito was reported missing by her family following a months-long cross-country road trip, which ended with Petito’s partner Brian Laundrie returning home to Florida without her. Petito’s case was highly publicized, with nightly news shows and Twitter threads alike reporting […]