Literature and Justice: Language and the Fight Against Feminicides

The UW-Milwaukee Department of History Welcomes Dr. Diana Aldrete, Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies and Human Rights, Trinity College for Literature and Justice: Language and the Fight Against Feminicides.
This talk explores how contemporary Mexican women writers transform literature into a space of ethical and political resistance amid feminicidal violence and systemic impunity. It examines how language itself becomes an instrument of justice—naming violence, preserving memory, and refusing erasure when institutions fail to protect or acknowledge victims. Engaging feminist, decolonial, and human rights frameworks, the talk considers how writing practices grounded in care, mourning, and collective testimony redefine justice beyond the confines of law. Ultimately, it argues for a defense of literature as integral to political and human rights work: not as a supplement to activism or legal reform, but as a vital mode of articulating rights denied and envisioning forms of justice that legal and institutional systems have yet to realize.

Date: November 07, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Holton Hall 341

Free and open to the public, also available by Zoom. Snacks will be provided.