Fernanda Soria-Cruz is a doctoral candidate in Communication at USC Annenberg, specializing in critical forensic studies, feminist epistemologies, visual culture, and critical media studies. Her research interrogates feminicide and forced disappearance in Mexico as phenomena articulated through forensic inquiry at the liminal intersection of both excess and lack—where symbolic topographies of pain converge with geographies of loss, absence, power, material traces, and bodily inscriptions of violence. Fernanda investigates forensic objects such as clandestine graves, deserts, public dumps, morgues, human bones, memorials, and artifacts left by the disappeared. Her work analyzes how institutional and citizen-led forensic practices, tanatho-citizens, and the forensic gaze of searching mothers produce contested yet co-constitutive “facts” and legitimized narratives of feminicidal violence, examining the ways feminicide is rendered (i)legible and (in)visible across expert, institutional, and public spheres.