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This paper addresses the question of race in relation to the image of serial girls. I reflect on how seriality affects women of colour and how it operates by imposing an ideal white female body and an ideal image of femininity. I am also interested in the way seriality is used by artists of colour, as a means for resistance against white cultural supremacy and (white) misogyny. Beyoncé is one example of how seriality can be reproduced in order to resist. Some relevant proof I analyse in this paper are the 2016 Superbowl performance and the film-album Lemonade. In this context, the image of serial girls appears both as a symptom of racism and as a possibility of anti-racist engagement.

This essay reflects on the use of a pseudonym by female authors whose work and relationship with the media express a resistance to the obligation to appear publicly. Elena Ferrante and Nelly Arcan play on the border between fiction and autobiography in order to escape their readers as well as critics and journalists. They stage an aesthetic and political “death of the author” that is a resistance against the tendency to objectify and consume female authors.