Abstract
A pink spaceship descends into a Brazilian television studio. A 5-foot 10-inch blonde woman is inside the spacecraft. She is wearing knee-high boots, a short, tight-fitting ensemble and pigtails. The landing of the shuttle is prolonged so as to maximize the euphoria of the awaiting children below it, non-paid non-actors who chant, scream and cry as they look up at the giant woman inside the pink blob of a shuttle, which is accented by enormous red lips (surely the spacecraft’s windows).
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Costa, D. (2015). A Doll Has No Holes: On the Queerness of Brazilian Children in Xuxa. In: Renold, E., Ringrose, J., Egan, R.D. (eds) Children, Sexuality and Sexualization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137353399_16
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