Instead of asking “can the slut speak?” [ala Spivak] and looking for a new model of feminism, I would instead ask “can the slut fuck?” [ala Joan Nestle] and urge the reader to consider embodied modes of learning that exceed the ability of rational language to name and categorize, and invite us to participate in our own embodied experimentation. 

Instead of offering Ke$ha as another white heterosexual cisgender icon for feminism, my attempt has been to use her performance to understand femme agency in everyday contexts as a modulation of nested networks of norms, as a choice between impure options that can still contain possibilities of ethical embodiment.