As mulheres no slam: poesia, feminismos e insurgência

Abstract

The dissertation Women in Slam: Poetry, Feminisms and Insurgency aims to reflect on the hypotheses of a liberating and multiplying effect of the poetry produced by women in slams. The research focuses on slams located in the city of São Paulo, since 2015. These events were organized open air on the streets and, since March 2020, only online. The championships have young people peripheral origins as protagonists. The objective of the work is to investigate these hypotheses and how the elements of the relational archipelago of slam interact. Slam, as a network organized in the form of championships, has been gaining visibility, which has resulted in a real possibility for people to survive from their art, by producing independent publications, presentations, participation in debates and workshops. The work is structured from a complex approach at cultural series, miscegenation and Latin America, with its insurgent aspects: critical, rhythmic, playful and erotic joy (PINHEIRO, 2013). We investigated the languages constructed by feminine, cheerful, activist and insurgent attitudes as responses to the binary logic of society. Concepts such as aquerlomamiento and queer multitude are also discussed based on texts by Tatiana Nascimento (2020), founder of the first Minas Slam and professor at UNB, and Paul Preciado (2011), in addition to the visions of Audre Lorde (2019) and Gloria Anzaldúa (2004). Pointing out relations with some thinkers, such as the Italian philosopher Luisa Muraro (1992) and the Brazilian historian Maria Odila Leite da Silva Dias (2019), the Chilean Humberto Maturana (2004) and researcher and artist Roberta Estrela D'Alva (2019), the research values a critical epistemology of history, focusing on the experience lived by women and the way they relate to each other. The corpus is built from interviews with poets and organizers involved in the slam scene and archival images. The historical, political and social scenario is taken into account, in addition to reflecting on the experience paths themselves during the course of the research. Along with the master's thesis, a short documentary with archival images and interviews is being produced entitled Minas no Slam (Women in Slam)