Critical polítics of sexuality and countercultural artistic practices in Buenos aires’s underground scene during the ‘90s

Abstract

At the beginning of the ‘90s, in the countercultural scene of Buenos Aires, a group of young women linked to punk music carried out a set of cultural initiatives from which they took a critical position regarding the forms of sexual violence they experienced. Through songs, independent publications and festivals, as well as discursive positions and aesthetic practices, these women developed critical positions around their bodies, identities and gender violence, which not only created a new imaginary about the possible connections between punk and feminism in the history of music, but also created conditions for a new cultural politics of feminism based on the critical incorporation of negative emotions, the revulsive potential of sexuality and critical positions of essentialism.