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In herÌýresearchÌýpresentation, Dr.ÌýKarrieannÌýSoto VegaÌýadvances a transnational feminist rhetorical history ofÌýLolita Lebrón, aÌýPuerto Rican nationalist, woman activist whoÌýengagedÌýin an armed attack against the US Congress in 1954, as a decolonial rhetoric of defiance.ÌýIn this work, Soto Vega highlights theÌýimportanceÌýofÌý placingÌýintersectionalÌýattention to gender performance and geopolitical location in social movement rhetorics.ÌýSpecifically, byÌýanalyzingÌýLolita Lebrón,ÌýwhoÌýgrew up in relative poverty in Puerto Rico, and her move to New York City in the 1940s being part of a broader mass migration, asÌýinfluencing her act of violence against US empire, Soto Vega's work illustrates howÌýLebrón's dissent cannot be divorced from third world women positionalities, whileÌýhighlightingÌýthe Puerto Rican nationalist tradition Lebron became a part of. Ultimately, this work emphasizes the relevance of situating diasporic rhetorical figures within their shifting contexts to accountÌýfor the complexity of gender, geopolitics, colonialism, and the historical development of rhetorical activity.Ìý