This article focuses on the press coverage of the murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women in Canada and women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to analyze the relationship between the representation of violence and the violence of representation. It takes as its point of departure the notion of representation as a technology of violence that has both discursive and material effects. Drawing on the concept of abjection, I argue that the discursive construction of these women as social waste simultaneously organizes the narratives of Canadian and Mexican newspapers, as well as the historically grounded social construction of gender and race in these two countries. Through a discourse analysis, I examine the distinction between “innocent” and “immoral” women, the image of the psychopath, and the portrayal of the murdered women's remains as forensic evidence as gendered and racialized narratives that construct these women as disposable and render invisible the violence perpetrated against them. This article is only accessible with journal subscription.