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Abstract

Peaches is pop, she is feminism and she is performance, she is pleasure and danger as well. Her work has the incredible ability to condense the long path traversed by the body as representation and the evolution of feminist thought and action. Her proposal refreshes the paradoxes present within the normalization of sexuality and thanks to that, some of them, the most obvious ones, find a new place within performative practices. Hers is a complex discourse that shares elements and stereotypes with a divergent popular imaginary and which through experience ends up reflecting on the most academic side of the theory of feminism and its own 'cuts', cracks or contradictions. The three video clips by the canadian artist, Peaches, that we analyse here, serve as an example to point out the capacity that art has to open the semiotic discourse, addressing the most fundamental problems of the sex-political formulation. As Beatriz Preciado (2007) said, the new feminism is playful and reflexive, it is post-porno, punk and transcultural.