‘Senorita Extravida’ tries to represent these young women
not as victims nor as weak, dependent people, but as resilient women who are
capable of demanding their rights. They showcase these young women as strong
and independent, contradictory to how their society portrays them.
Lisa Cacho’s concept of “social death” refers to the idea
that groups which “in the eyes of society, have little value, depend on
capitalist and hetero patriarchal measures of worth.” (Summary, Social Death by
Lisa Marie Cacho). In this case, young women are considered to be socially
inferior, so it is difficult for them to obtain the same opportunities and
treatment as males. They are socially disadvantaged and every day is a struggle
for equal rights, exemplifying Lisa Cacho’s idea of “social death”.
The poor mothers and families have banded up together to
form an agency that searches for their missing daughters and sister by looking
through the desert for bodies and identifying remains. Furthermore, they look
into how state agents are perpetrators of the murders, and how the current state
favors patriarchy and sexual politics practices (Fregoso, 27), thus holding these
authorities accountable for their actions.
The end of “Toward a Planetary Civil Society" (Fregoso, 28-29) refers to artwork of the Black Cross on the Pink Background. It creates
a symbolism of how the pink background is representative of women and feminism,
while the black cross is symbolic of a greater power that is able to see all of
the unjust things happening to the women, thus exemplifying how art serves as a
witness.
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