State Violence

A decolonial feminist theory of witnessing that follows activist mothers, artists, filmmakers, courts, and communities resisting feminicidal violence in Mexico.

A foundational interdisciplinary collection defining feminicide as structural gendered violence sustained not only by perpetrators but by state impunity, racial capitalism, and transnational economies.

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.