Editorial

Abstract

Questioning the presupposition of normativisednormality has been a banner of our daily struggles from feminist collectives and sexual dissidences. That is to say, to recognise and deconstruct the strong cis-heteronormative, white, hierarchical, ableist, (re)productive, middle-class, etc., marks and practices with which this normality was installed and is insistently repeated, sometimes covertly, in our individual and collective lives. With the pandemic, radical shifts have occurred and continue to occur in the way we relate to each other, in the way we encounter each other, some of them unexpected even for feminisms and dissidences. In one sense, the usual urgencies and issues - violence, inequalities, intersecting discriminations - have widened and accelerated, and in many other ways, we have been challenged to set new horizons.

With this uncertain and powerful horizon, we present the fifth issue of Polémicas Feministas as a commitment and a contribution to the production of feminist and dissident knowledge in the face of the challenge, the questions, the difficulties and also the potentialities of what we call the virtual. We hope that our work and that of all those who collaborated in this new issue will be enjoyed and that it will enable new questions and creations.