Sublime

A figura da policial feminista é evocada porque é útil; ouvir as feministas como se fossem policiais é uma forma de não ouvir o feminismo.

If feminists speak of wrongs, this speech is understood not only as unreasonable, but as a product of having an obstinate and unyielding nature.

Misogyny, as I’ve argued, finds in fatphobia a powerful and convenient ally: it constructs a ready-to-hand hierarchy among girls and women based on the infinitely gradable metric of body mass, usefully complicated by body shape, breast size, waist-to-hip ratio, and various markers of privilege.

São cenários complicados: você pode receber benefícios ao se adaptar a um sistema que, em outro nível, põe em risco sua capacidade de habitar um mundo em condições mais igualitárias.

obra de Audre Lorde

fannish reading practices may represent a particular inflection of gender-specific strategies of interpretation, may represent the institutionalization of a “feminine” approach to texts that differs radically from the more “masculine” style preferred by the academy.

To be at the intersection of female-identifying, queer, and Black is to find oneself at an integral apex. Each of these components is a key technology in and of itself. Alone and together, “female,” “queer,” “Black” as a survival strategy demand the creation of their individual machinery, that innovates, builds, resists. With physical movement ofte

The bodies of hula performers present a curious problem: they are hypervisible in popular culture while leaving only the faintest traces in archives.

It’s a strange split: in our society, food and women are traditionally dismissed as frivolous, fanciful, feminine things, while also being the stuff of nightmares.