Contrasting organizational responses to femicide in Mexico’s public health crisis

Femicide prevention frameworks in Mexico must move beyond symbolic gestures of inclusion and begin to reckon with the structural exclusion of grassroots knowledge and labor. Meaningful response requires a shift in power and priorities-one that values community knowledge, centers survivor-defined metrics of safety and trust, and explores models of shared governance in contexts where institutional systems are distrusted or absent. In such settings, grassroots responses are not peripheral-they are essential.