Brainstorm 5 - Karen Velderrain-Lopez

Senorita Extraviada challenges the representations that were attempting to present young women as disposable by the way that they negated the interpretations presented with the acts happening in Cuidad Juarez. They do this by presenting the harsh realities that the young women face and because of the justifications people like the governor made, it was the victims who were blamed. Having the victims and their families sharing what happened and how they were let down by those that should have been helping them show how they were represented as being disposable. However, when the families were marching and painting the crosses, they were showing that they matter and that every woman counts. The black crosses on a pink background, this art is functioning as a witness since it is marking down every woman that has been murdered. Along with the use of art, families also march and display pictures of the women as a form of resilience by showing that they matter and they are missed. Social death is experienced by these maquiladoras because they are forgotten by society and cast aside as being disposable.