State Violence

Rosa-Linda Fregoso reframes feminist witnessing through Mexico’s contra-feminicide movement, connecting memory, art, legal testimony, migration, and collective responsibility.

Puar examines how selective queer inclusion can accompany racialized exclusion, linking sexuality, nationalism and security through homonationalism.

Stevenson examines care in the Canadian Arctic through the gap between managing a population’s survival and attending to particular lives and relationships.

An interdisciplinary feminist and human-rights collection on feminicide in the Americas, state impunity, transnational economies, and the justice organizing of victims’ relatives.

Veena Das follows violence into everyday relations, asking how voice, acknowledgment and the work of inhabiting a damaged world reshape accounts of agency.

Payal Kapadia combines fictional love letters, student protest footage, and archival fragments to connect caste-separated intimacy with the remaking of Indian universities under nationalist power.

Three girls grow up in a Mexican poppy-growing region where mothers disguise daughters from armed men, making girlhood, friendship, and protective care the center of narco-violence.

Set amid Sri Lanka’s political violence, this drama follows a widowed mother of eight whose struggle for income reveals how war, sexual exploitation, and social respectability converge on women’s bodies.

Mexican journalist and activist Verónica Villalvazo explains the daily work of documenting feminicide and accompanying families when official institutions allow victims to disappear twice.

At FLACSO Ecuador, Lagarde links feminicidio to social tolerance and state responsibility, distinguishing criminalization from wider policy and professional training.