BLACK WOMEN AND HIP HOP

THROUGH AN INTERSECTIONAL VIEW

Abstract

 The objective of this article is to reflect on the intersections that are built in the action of black women in Hip Hop in the city of Belo Horizonte, based on its dance element. I start from the initial notes of the doctoral research entitled WOMEN IN TRANSMUTED TRANSIT: Leisure, Hip Hop and emancipation in the Anjos D´Rua Project, of the Postgraduate Program in Interdisciplinary Leisure Studies, at UFMG. I intend to analyze the movements of five black and peripheral women between their home and the sociocultural project Anjos D'Rua, which has been operating in the scope of non-formal education for 20 years, offering classes for children, young people and adults, based on immersion in Hip Hop culture. I am interested in analyzing the processes through which women dancers experience and how they circulate in the city's public leisure spaces and how the latter responds to the circulation of peripheral black and LGTBQIA+ women. Analyzing circulation from black feminism through an intersectional lens, I seek to bring to the scene how issues of race, gender, sexuality and class demarcate the experience of black women in the Hip Hop scene in Belo Horizonte.