Negra lésbica : na ginga de uma identidade

Abstract

In this text, which composes my Master's research in Education, I reflect about my own experiences as a black and lesbian woman, not in a self involved way, or as another abject person, marginalized, spited and skinned, but in dialogue with authors and authoress such as Audre Lorde, Bell Hooks, Angela Davis, Glória Anzaldúa and Frantz Fanon, as well as with works wrote by Djamila Ribeiro, Lélia Gonzales, Carolina Maria de Jesus and Neusa Santos. I am not another abject person, but to understand this is a daily process shared here, within the limits of time´s contingencies, in order to be aware of the identity formation processes as a black, lesbian and researcher woman, affected by colonization, in a context in which my otherbody is analyzed as an object and rarely as a subject. Then I ask myself: Where do the speeches that talk about my body arise from? What do they want? Who do they serve? In which different ways is my body going through these speeches? Where is it located in the scale of power? The search for such answers and the finding of the position of subalternity have triggered many other questions and many other anxieties in me. This dissertation looks into some of them in the attempt to demystifying the bodies considered human and the bodies considered inferior concerning racial questions. The methodology adopted is revealed in research paths that are opened by the jungles of intersectional theory. For this, I used the reflexitivity as a tool for analysis, which is sustained by the epistemologies of subaltern´s knowledge.