Resumo: Sob o viés do feminismo multicultural, os conceitos de relacionalidade, de posicionamento dos discursos e das interseccionalidades de opressões são instrumentais para um melhor entendimento das múltiplas perspectivas que norteiam as práticas feministas atuais, ancoradas em saberes e estéticas pós e descoloniais. Nosso objetivo é colocar em pauta as práticas e estéticas políticas adotadas por mulheres de lugares geográficos e sociais bastante diversos. A produção artística que desenvolvem através de linguagens e narrativas variadas promove possibilidades de fomentar poéticas de resistência e descolonização de gênero que desafiam nossa compreensão tradicional sobre o estético, o político e o epistemológico.

Abstract: Under the bias of multicultural feminism, the concepts of relationality, discourse positioning and intersectionalities of oppressions are instrumental for a better understanding of the multiple perspectives that inform current feminist practices, anchored in post/decolonial knowledges and aesthetics. Our discussion aims to address political practices and aesthetics adopted by women from very diverse social and geographic places. The artistic/cultural production that is developed through varied languages and narratives promotes possibilities to foster poetics of gender resistance and decolonization that challenge our traditional understanding of the aesthetic, political, and epistemological.

The legacy of a colonial past marked by violence and oppression still influences sexual politics on the Caribbean Islands. The absence of laws to protect LGBT citizens together with firmly rooted heteronormative structures make the islands an inhospitable place for those who do not comply with the rules, reinforcing the idea of Caribbean LGBTs as virtually inexistent. In Valmiki's Daughter Shani Mootoo uses literary representation to break "the silence about sexuality and nonnormalizing desire". The novel underscores the sexual diversity of individuals situated inside a region that has been perceived as primarily heterosexual, a perception that needs to be deconstructed. However, Mootoo implicitly acknowledges the constricted space for individuals that do not abide by compulsory heterosexuality, attesting the power of discursive processes and practices that still regulate bodies, genders and desires.