Reservation Dogs is a heartbreaking, but honest and fair portrait of what it is like to be a woman in Mexico. And how being a woman under different circumstances also determines the violent destinies expressed in different ways for many women.
This book is made up of a series of stories that are written in the first person and starring women. The stories are fictitious, but it’s hard not to feel them real in a daily life like the one we women live in this country. It’s hard not to remember that what happened to Regina – one of the characters – happened to someone I know. It’s hard not even to identify yourself.
Thus, as in a Quentin Tarantino film, it is how the women who star in Reserve Dogs navigate life in a deeply classist, sexist, homophobic and unequal country and the constant between all these intersections is one: violence.
Regina was Yuliana’s best friend, a daughter of an important drug lord in Mexico, I say it was because her boyfriend, Jesús, murdered her, because he was very jealous and found her talking to one of his security guards. She killed him with a bullet and then tried to drown her; she couldn’t and then, “everything was filled with smoke, lead and blood”. Regina, in addition, was the daughter of an important Mexican politician.
A woman is violently murdered every two and a half hours in Mexico.
sequins This is the name of the story that in a few pages simplifies the journey of a transsexual woman who earned her living in sex work. And violence appears from his early years and never goes away. The life expectancy of trans women in Mexico is just 35 years, less than half the figure for the total population.
“The border is not what one thinks or how they paint it. The border is a monster, a beast eager to swallow. And it doesn’t have a filler: it feeds on work, sex, drugs and women, but I didn’t know that,” she says in The smile. Ciudad Juárez is a serial femicide: official records record about 2,300 murders of women and there is not even an exact figure for disappearances.
Life in the neighborhood, women in the neighborhood, family, lack, need and poverty, hunger, fear, lack of protection. But also dignity, hope, care, community. The mothers, the sisters, the daughters, the neighbors. Music and Jenny Rivera. The very different reality that women live here and there.
Abortion, a basic sexual and reproductive health right, an issue of public policy and human rights that has not yet reached Mexico universally. The journey of having an abortion alone in a place where neither the law nor society protects you. Only seven of 32 states in Mexico guarantee legal access to voluntary termination of pregnancy.
Reserve Dogs shows, from different positions and perspectives, what it means to be born a woman and where this condition can take you depending on where you were born, whose daughter you are, how poor you are, what you like or how you perceive yourself. And always, violence, intersecting as a constant.
“Mexico is a huge monster that devours women. Mexico is a desert made of bone dust. Mexico is a cemetery of pink crosses. Mexico is a country that hates women”, says the last story of Perras de Reserva.
ana.garcia@eleconomista.mx
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