Mulheres Negras no Slam das Minas BA: Um Espaço de Insubmissão e Resistência

Abstract

This Master's thesis is the result of a study about Black women's poetry slam, having Slam das Minas BA as a reference, a battle of spoken word held in Salvador/BA since 2017, which has an only women participation and organization agenda. Based on the hypothesis that poetry slam is a space for insubmission, inventiveness and resistance for Black women poets, this work seeks to understand the meaning of role of the artists participation in the battles of poetry slam as well as the personal and collective transformations that become possible by the means of claiming the word. In order to do that, this qualitative research has an interdisciplinary literature review and document analysis (websites, reports and videos available on Youtube and Instagram), in addition to the dialogue with poems presented at Slam das Minas BA in 2019, which were also considered in the scope of performance. From the analysis, it was possible to observe that the poems studied present themes that relate to life experience and offer a specific standpoint of Black women, this without meaning homogenization, as they engender diverse perspectives. It was also found that Slam das Minas BA is a safe space, where Black poets are able to speak freely and where they can use their creations that are, at the same time both aesthetic and political, to question hegemonic powers, denounce violence that directly affect them – such as racism, sexism and silencing –as well as build and circulate other representations of themselves, claiming other possibilities for life.