City of Boston, Estados Unidos
The Things We Lost in the Fire presents a wave of femicides in Argentina, committed by men burning and deforming women, leaving them to die or to become disabled. As a protest to these femicides, a group of women devises a vendetta by resignifying a past ritual: they start burning themselves at the stake. With their disabled bodies, these women disrupt the patriarchal expectations about beauty and femininity. Using Kristeva's abjection theory alongside disability study theories, I will demonstrate how “trashed” beauty and disability can represent a liberation from heteronormative aesthetic expectations, as well as how these bodies reimagine female identity.
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