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I’m trapped in an infinite loop of bad decisions with consequences that are never not dramatic. I take the same road over and over, always forgetting it’s the wrong one, and even when it looks like I have things under control, something tells me maybe I don’t.
But boosting rich kids doesn’t count as doing dirt—it’s justice.
They tailed me for several blocks, catcalling: “Hey, mamacita! Swing that fine ass over here!” I ignored them and kept on walking, diva-style.
How can you prove misogyny in court if the murderer says he loved her? Love is misogynist.
In your own home. Nowhere is safe. Nowhere. Being a woman means living in a state of emergency.
Every two hours and twenty-five minutes, a woman in Mexico is strangled, raped, dismembered, burned alive, mutilated, beaten to a pulp, and left with bruises and broken bones.
A woman’s body, another woman. Some woman, a nameless woman. A lifeless body was found. But none of them was yours.
was shocked. Did you know that ten women are murdered every day in Mexico? That’s more than one every three hours.
“Excuse me, sir, but what would’ve happened if the victim had been a man?” “They would’ve stabbed him, maybe killed him, end of story.” Why do things “get out of hand” differently when a guy is robbed? Why was she raped, tortured, and strangled? “Because she was a woman,” he answered. Even so, he refused to classify the crime as a femicide. I fucking hate them, I hate them so much.
Mexico is a monster that devours women. Mexico is a desert of pulverized bone. Mexico is a graveyard full of pink crosses. Mexico is a country that hates women.
Mothers searching for their daughters. Cities covered with pink crosses. Cities covered with posters of missing women. Deserts of bone. Lakes that swallow women whole. Dead women emerging from the rivers, from the sewers, from the sands of the desert. Corpses dumped in the garbage, in black trash bags. Food for the dogs. Disposable women. Decapitated women. Strangled women. Dismembered women. Raped women.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but femicides have an extremely high rate of impunity in Mexico. Only, like, 5 percent of cases ever lead to a conviction.
