Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This review presents and examines Modativismo: quando a moda encontra a luta, emphasizing its contribution to understanding fashion as a social language and a space of symbolic dispute. The book introduces the concept of modactivism to describe a practice that connects creation, activism, and situated knowledge production, particularly from the experience of Black women. By addressing beauty standards, anthropometric sizing systems, fashion runways, and religious garments, the work shows that fabrics, cuts, and aesthetics operate as signs that organize racial and social hierarchies. In this sense, fashion is not neutral. It functions as a social technology that shapes subjectivities and regulates belonging, repositioning dressing as a political act and a practice of meaning-making.
Author: Paulo Antonio de Sousa Marquêz
Institution: Universidade de Sorocaba
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7223294792