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The juxtaposition between the aesthetic of the group (their gender and their age) alongside their protest methods can easily be cited as the root cause of their success. They are creative, unique, and engaging – especially to those new to engaging with issues of justice. Their use of satirical songs, props, costumes, and creative actions was used to highlight and disclose information that was not only omitted from news coverage but intentionally obfuscated by the powers at be.^[1]  In addition to the tangible methods, they use their bodies and their age to capitalize on the attention of the audience to intervene within the political sphere.

Feminist performance art is “characterized by an inordinate ability to mix disparate elements with wild abandon and to con-found categories, social positions, and hierarchies of space, language and class; to provide both a ‘festive critique’ and an extreme utopian vision of society at the same time; and to reconfigure the world through laughter.” ^[2]