The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"

The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"

In the music video for her 2006 party pop ballad “Todos me Miran” (Everyone Looks at Me), Mexican singer Gloria Trevi portrays a woman fleeing from her abusive husband and into the bright light of clubbing self-confidence; twinned with her story is that of a young trans woman fleeing from her abusive father. Each earns stares in the street and, in the lyrics of the song, “And everyone looks at me, looks at me, looks at me/ Because I do what few …