Brainstorm #5 - Albert Lam

Senorita Extraviada challenges the representations of the young women as disposable by telling their stories. In the film, it was said that the only reliable information that could be received was from the women themselves. Telling the stories of the women both presents better and more accurate information, and puts a voice behind the horrifying figures of crime in Juarez. By humanizing facts and figures, Seniorita Extraciada fights the idea that the young women of Juarez are disposable. The film itself is a form of art that functions as a  witness. In "Towards a Planetary Civil Society", Fregoso states that "employs religious symbolism and iconography subversively", which rendered the piece, which Lourdes describes as a requiem, into "an artistic composition for the dead" (26). For the mothers and families, they practice resilience and confront the tragedies by contributing to Seniorita Extraviada, which fights for and honors the deceased. According to Fregoso, Lourdes never sought to victimize the women but rather seeks to "[emphasize] the process of radicalization", because that "gives voice to women's agency," of both the mothers and sisters as radicals and "protagonists in grassroots movements", but also the killed women themselves. This is an important distinction that serves to highlight the ongoing strength and resilience of the women of Juarez, combating the notion that they are disposable.