After “Ellas tienen nombre,” a map by Ivonne Ramírez Ramírez showing where victims of femicide in Ciudad Juárez since 1993 were murdered, abandoned, or found.
: in a crevasse : on the road : partially burned : behind a middle school : pants half on : in a motel : on the sidewalk : some cyclists alerted the police : in a tire dump : wrapped in a blanket : mom recognized the braces on her teeth : wrapped in a carpet : under a bed : in a cardboard box : wearing a Mickey Mouse T-shirt : left nipple bitten off : near the train tracks : in plastic bags : the shoulder strap of her purse around her neck : inside a brown Chrysler New Yorker : in the back seat of a beige 1981 Dodge : inside a white 1988 Chevrolet Celebrity : floating in a sewage canal : in the parking lot of Bull’s Billiards : in the bathroom of her house : pink tennis shoes : half buried in a park : thrown into a dam : covered with lime : on the edge of the Rio Bravo : with enough flesh to identify her : on Santa María hill : local stray dogs with their mouths full of blood
María Aga is a Fulbright alumna (2023-2025), with an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. She was born and raised in Ciudad Juárez, México, a border shaped by resilience and a persistent advocacy for gender justice.