“The times always find their case”

Interview with Alia Trabucco Zerán

Abstract

Working on women killers in a context in which Latin American women’s movements have massified demands for the end of male violence and femicide is a serious challenge. In this interview, Alia Trabucco Zerán shows, through her answers, why, despite the fact that the cases of women murderers are exceptional, thinking about this issue is a task for feminism. These cases allow the author to talk about the relationship that is woven between them and the social problems of the time; to investigate the relationship of women with the law; the place of female killers in national symbolism; the resistance (or impossibility) of thinking about women as being able to kill, according to how gender arguments are articulated in the symbolic foundations of inequality. The author also critiques the neoliberal academy and explores the possibility of resistance through various forms of writing and publication.