Staging the crime scene: feminicide and performativity in Ciudad Juárez

This commentary focuses on what Monárrez Fragoso calls ‘systemic sexual feminicide’ in Ciudad Juárez and examines the patriarchal-colonial conditions that make the murder of women possible and widespread. Specifically, it draws on the work of Rita Laura Segato to show how the style of the killings – the rape, torture and murder of victims who are then dumped in semi-public spaces – relates to the production of impunity, before turning to individuals and groups that challenge this relation.