SUSANISIMA

Susana Vargas Cervantes writes, researches and teaches.
Her research mines the connections between gender, sexuality, class and skin tonalities to reconceptualize pigmentocracy. She is the author of the book The Little Old Lady Killer: The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico's First Female Serial Killer (NYU Press, 2019) and Mujercitos (Editorial RM, 2015).

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BOOKS

︎ The Little Old Lady Killer

NYU Press, 2019

︎ Mujercitos

Editorial RM, 2015

︎ Aprehendiendo al delincuente

UNAM-McGill, 2011

WRITINGS

︎ Scholarly
︎ Essays

CURATORIAL

︎ TATE BRITAIN

Stan Firm inna Inglan

︎ JUMEX MUSEUM

En Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni

︎ CCE

Lo que se ve no se pregunta

OTHER PROJECTS

︎ Mesas de Diálogo

COLLABORATIONS

︎ Queering curatorial practices
︎ Seven to Eleven dreams

︎ A life in a liminal space

ABOUT

THE LITTLE OLD LADY KILLER

The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico’s First Female Serial Killer

NYU PRESS.2019
In the Alternative Criminology series

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The little old lady killer focuses on the search for the Mataviejitas (“the killer of little old women”), the first ever undertaken for a serial killer in Mexico. Through an analysis of police reports and news media discourses of the Mataviejitas in relation to international criminological discourses and Mexican popular culture, this book questions who counts as a victim and how a criminal is constructed.

PRESS ︎

︎CBS WHY WOMEN KILL
The Blood Thirsy Babe
[ October 2019 ]

︎CBS INSIDE EDITION
The Strange Saga of Juana Barraza, a Female Wrestler and Mexico's 'Little Old Lady Killer
[ October 2019 ]

︎SLAM MAGAZINE, Melissa Hemmings
Lucha libre killer makes for captivating reading
[ October 2019 ]

︎THE SERIAL KILLER PODCAST
Interview
[ September 2019 ]