Keisha-Khan Perry’s Black Women Against the Land Grab (2013), brought to mind Rita Segato’s “Territory, Sovereignty, and Crimes of the Second State: The Writing on the Body of Murdered Women” (2010). In this essay Segato masterfully articulates the socio-economic complexities of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, while simultaneously performing an in-depth cultural reading of the city’s pervasive feminicides.… Continue reading Thoughts on Precarity and the City
