Author, as appears in the article.: Dominique Grisard; Barbara Biglia

Department: Pedagogia

URV's Author/s: Biglia, Barbara

Keywords: Social movements Revolution History Feminism

Abstract: This article is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural encounter and debate between two feminists on the question of what constitutes revolution. In the first two sections we will draw on examples from our respective research on women's political activisms in order to reflect on dominant ideas of revolution, ideas that some feminists have criticised as masculinist, in the ways in which they homogenise and universalise the notion of politics and the violence it espouses. With our vastly different historical and geopolitical vantage points, Dominique Grisard's queer-femmeinist historical approach on the one hand, and Barbara Biglia's feminist activist psychosocial critical lens on the other, we will not pretend to homogenise our different embodied experiences. Instead our goal is to fruitfully put them into conversation. Drawing on cis-gendered women's political interventions, our goal is to present past and present activist voices. In fact, we will quote the (written or spoken) opinion of feminist activists and critically analyse the effect of their actions. In the first section we will introduce and problematise the distinction between so called political and socio-cultural revolution. This allows us to reflect on what we deem relevant for and indicative of socio-cultural change. We will move on to discuss the extent to which feminism could be understood as revolutionary before introducing our case study, which will allow us to think through the effects of two femmenist practices -- 'passing' and 'femme drag' -- and whether they could be considered revolutionary or rather involutionary. Our case study discusses the interventions of a radical feminist dance troupe called Pink Bloque in the early to mid 2000s. In the last section we will critically discuss if and under what circumstances 'passing' and 'drag' could be seen as socio-cultural revolutionary strategies due to the ways in which they destabilise contemporary understandings of femininity, politics and potentially revolution.

Thematic Areas: Educação

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 23851171

Author's mail: barbara.biglia@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0003-0135-4866

Record's date: 2023-04-29

Journal volume: 2

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://zapruderworld.org/journal/past-volumes/volume-2/if-i-cant-dance-it-aint-my-revolution-queer-feminist-inquiries-into-pink-bloques-revolutionary-strategies/

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Zapruder Word. 2 (2015):

APA: Dominique Grisard; Barbara Biglia (2015). 'If I can't dance, it ain't my revolution.' Queer-feminist inquiries into Pink Bloque's revolutionary strategies. Zapruder Word, 2(2015), -. DOI: 10.21431/Z3QP40

Article's DOI: 10.21431/Z3QP40

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2015

Publication Type: Journal Publications