Forasteiras de Dentro

Corposcrevências de Mulheres Negras no Hip-Hop Dança sob a Lente Interseccional

Abstract

This thesis proposes to discuss intersectionality as praxis, with social action as a mode of knowledge, based on qualitative, exploratory, ethnographic, and "escrevivencial" research. The work comprises two complementary methodological movements: the first, with urban ethnographic inspiration that includes data generated throughout 2023 and 2024, based on the circulation in leisure contexts of four Black Hip-Hop dancers from the city of Belo Horizonte, MG; a second movement emerged from the "escrevivência" of these women, which reverberates in the articulation between thought, writing, and dance, which we announce in the research as "corposcrevência." The theoretical foundation was woven in an interdisciplinary manner, drawing from Patricia Hill Collins on the relationship between Black feminist thought, intersectionality, and Hip-Hop; Christianne Luce Gomes conceptualizing leisure as a human necessity in the dimension of culture; Nilma Lino Gomes with aesthetic-corporeal knowledge, the Black Educational Movement, and the emancipated body; Paulo Freire bringing the conscious body and the relationship between humanization and dehumanization; and finally, bell hooks with the question of self-recovery of Black women and the place of affects in knowledge production relations. The analyses revealed that Black women are intersected by issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality, which produce qualitatively differentiated experiences in the field of leisure. In counterpoint, they produce resistance through multiple literacies, organizations that are their own, and through their body-territories, which reverberate in a territory of affects that sustain them for the fabulation of other possible futures in intersectional leisures.