Marcha virtual das mulheres negras amazônidas: dimensões interseccionais na comunicação ativista em tempos de pandemia

Abstract

Invisible in the official historiography, black women have been developing strategies to show that the unique history (ADICHIE, 2019) is a history written by white hands (NASCIMENTO, 2021) and also a history that has coloniality (QUIJANO, 2005) as a background. bottom. In this same flow, the Amazon has been subordinated (LOUREIRO, 2019) and stereotyped in the face of the national social imaginary. From this context, the research analyzes the Virtual March of Black Women, which was held on July 25, 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The event, which lasted about four hours, was mobilized, publicized and carried out through digital networks, bringing together black women activists from eight of the nine states of the Legal Amazon. Intersectionality (BILGE; COLLINS, 2021) is triggered throughout the entire investigative path and will be our lens to understand, among other questions, how intersectionalities cross and are mobilized in the digital activism of black women in the Amazon from their march virtual. What are the repercussions of this process in the political struggle of Amazonian black women? In the theoretical contribution, we mainly bring black feminist thought, as it exemplifies the decoloniality of knowledge and because it is an action tool adopted by black Amazonian women. The methodological procedures that guide us are Intersectional Roulette (CARRERA, 2021), which provides qualitative analyzes that cover subjects, objects and communication processes, by bringing intersectionality to the field of Communication, and Writing (EVARISTO, 2020) that allows our insertion in research, activating memory and oral and written languages to tell a story that cannot be made invisible. Through the input and methodologies used, we understand that black Amazonian women share and politicize a regional identity; that are guided by black feminist thought, that is, they value the knowledge of community and religious leaders and that the march triggers several intersectional dimensions not only in the activists' speeches, but even in the proposal and realization of the online event. We present this research as part of the strategy of black Amazonian women to mark themselves as protagonists and subjects of their stories.