Sublime

By the early 2000s, the intersectional shift in feminism had become undeniable. Previous feminist scholarship and activism treated women as a class and sought to create positive change for that class. As the influence of applied postmodernism crept into feminism, however, the focus switched from material disadvantages within social structures like

qualquer mulher se arrisca a ser descrita com o mesmo adjetivo se se identificar com as ideias dela.

there is no monolithic body.

nossa identidade deve ter como base nossa “beleza”,

Crip-queer rhetorics uphold Dolmage’s assertion that rhetoric’s purview is “meaningful bodies,” wherein the locus of “meaning” (much like the construct of “body”) queerly shifts among uncertain, fleeting, and mundane means: for rhetoric is determined by the undetermined or the indeterminable.

Para Butler (1990), gênero é, portanto, uma repetição estilizada de performances, que de tanto serem repetidas criam uma sensação de identidade e estabilidade para o sujeito.

Como investigadoras e críticas, elas estavam desconstruindo seus mitos pessoais da beleza.

Each human being is multidimensional and contradictory, with what Avery Gordon describes as a “complex personhood”: