Las Des-chi-cha-das: Intoxication as Feminist Pleasure

Yessica Garcia will draw on the theoretical framework of raunch aesthetics to examine how Jenni Rivera fans would ritualistically remove their bras and thongs to expose their bodies to the late Chicana singer in concert... [ view full abstract ]

Yessica Garcia will draw on the theoretical framework of raunch aesthetics to examine how Jenni Rivera fans would ritualistically remove their bras and thongs to expose their bodies to the late Chicana singer in concert performances. Through analysis of YouTube videos, interviews, and Rivera’s autobiography (in which she shares anecdotes of her own practice of “flashing” other artists/fans), Garcia explores how fans and Rivera herself have been intoxicated by feminist bodies and pleasures (Foucault, 1978) that teach them to embrace “slutty,” working class, Latina sex-positivity.

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