{"id":62150,"date":"2024-11-25T07:13:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T06:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/?p=62150"},"modified":"2024-11-29T16:36:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T15:36:02","slug":"lo-cute-y-melenas-sobre-pelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/lo-cute-y-melenas-sobre-pelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuteness and manes on hair"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Cute
\n<\/em><\/strong>Being cute, in our case, became a shield against sexualization within the patriarchal environment in which we began to be Momu & No Es. A kind of “cute capital” allowed us to operate in a terrain difficult to intervene.<\/p>\n

To contextualize this notion of “cute capital”, I\u2019ve put together a series of ideas and reflections that make up the relationship between cute and the construction of a space of resistance.<\/p>\n

A. Yesterday<\/strong><\/p>\n

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An arts student\u2019s notebook decorated with stickers of Sony Angel dressed as a cat, and a Sylvanian Families doll, among other motifs.<\/p><\/div>\n

Lab 1, a class of 23 first-year students. Introductions with pronouns, all She\/Her or All of them. A relaxed environment, but not for that reason not challenging.<\/p>\n

B. Cuteness and Japan
\n<\/strong>The first time I went to Japan, one of the things that most caught my attention was that cute was for everyone, from schoolchildren to subway workers, salarymen, and Buddhist monks, all of whom wore uniforms (although that\u2019s another topic). As I was saying, they all had charms and little dolls unabashedly decorating their cell phones and work bags.<\/p>\n

They all openly consumed cuteness as kawaii[1]<\/sup><\/a>Kawaii. Japanese use cuteness in a wide variety of instances and situations where, in other cultures, it might be considered incongruously childish or frivolous (for example, in government … Continue reading<\/span><\/span><\/span>