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Femicide in Juárez is Not a Myth [TexasObserver.org]

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Last year, the Texas Observer published an interview with Molly Molloy in which she argued that femicide in Juárez, Mexico is a myth. Molloy is a research librarian at New Mexico State University who has studied Juárez for two decades and runs theFrontera List, an influential forum for border and Mexico news. In the article, Molly claims that femicide — or the killing of women for being women, often accompanied by rape or mutilation — is a sensationalized media narrative that distracts from real problems in Juárez.

I published a book on femicide in Juárez, and I often receive emails from critics who wield Molloy’s article as a weapon. They are generally people who do not believe that gender is worth studying in any context. Other researchers and activists have also talked to me about how the article is used by critics to invalidate their work. Paula Flores, whose daughter Sagrario was kidnapped and murdered in Juárez in 1998, is a well-known activist. When I talked to her about the piece, she said, “Those are words the government uses to clean up the image of dear Juárez. I personally did not invent that I had a daughter named Sagrario. Femicide is not a myth.”

 

[For more of this story, written by Alice Driver, go to http://www.texasobserver.org/f...uarez-is-not-a-myth/]

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