608 College English College English, Volume 75, Number 6, July 2013 Femicide and Rhetorics of Coadyuvante in Ciudad Juárez: Valuing Rhetorical Traditions in the Americas Tricia C. Serviss Tricia C. Serviss is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at Auburn University in Ala- bama, where she teaches courses in writing, writing pedagogy, and digital literacies while also directing the Community Writing Center of Auburn. Recently her work has appeared in the journals Assessing Writing and Writing and Pedagogy. coadyuvante—a legal petition made by victims of crimes and their families to access [ofﬁcial] criminal investigations and proceedings —Esther Chavez Cano It is our right as Mexicans to participate in the case, to see that there is an investigation [. . . .] They don’t get to write her life. They want her life to match their ideas about her. They want the evidence to conﬁrm the double life they say she led. We want the entire community of Ciudad Juárez to participate in challenging their simple stories about our daughters. We want our statements about our daughters to compel them to revise and reconsider with us. In some ways we are petitioning the community more than our government. —Norma Andrade Coadyuvante reminds us that we are miles thick. —Norma Andrade Coadyuvante is this insistence that you cannot take out one factor by itself and make something of it. You cannot understand my daughter and her death just in terms of the church. Or the maquilas. You have to consider it all at once. —Guillermina Gonzalez Copyright © 2013 by the National Council of Teachers of English. All rights reserved.