Objects of indignation

To Write on the body of the State

Abstract

In Mexico, during the last three years, feminist mobilizations have created a writing on the body of the State that challenges and confronts the writing on women's bodies proposed by Rita Laura Segato to understand the feminicidal violence in Ciudad Juarez. This writing, made of strokes, objects, erasures and graffiti, intervenes the body of the Mexican State with the voice of feminists and denounces the systematic violence and impunity that women in this country face on a daily basis. Based on a course I taught at the University of Chile on the cry of women demanding justice, this essay is a montage of quotes, references and images that emerges from the readings and conversations that took place in that space. The figure of Antigone functions as an allegory of the relations between feminism and the State in Latin America, in a context of crisis and emancipation.