Description: The book challenges white and Western feminist approaches to embodied politics, or the use of the body in everyday enactments of resistance, while mapping transgressive performances of femininities by the funkeiras, marginalized women and transfeminine people of color artists in Brazilian favela funk.
Review Quotes: "We want the (favela) funk! Gotta have that (favela) funk! Moreira, in Bitches Unleashed, dismantles Global North and White, U.S. centric perspectives of research by reconceptualizing systems of gender and sexuality through transfeminista formulations of agency. By focusing on structural change and decolonizing cisheteronormativity, the centering of people of color and travesti communication offers the reader powerful analyses of white feminist failures, coloniality, transgression, intersectionality, and critical qualitative methodologies."-Robert Gutierrez-Perez, Assistant Professor, Editor, Border-Lines: Journal of the Latino Research Center, Department of Communication Studies, University of Nevada, Reno