Ciberaquilombamentos: produção de resistências pretas em tempos pandêmicos

Abstract

This is a dissertation anchored in research on everyday life, influenced (DELEUZE; GATTARI, 1995) by the studies of cyberculture (SANTOS, 2019), with a racial focus primarily drawn from the writings of Carolina Maria de Jesus (2014) and Conceição Evaristo (2022). Considering online social networks as 'spacetimes' of advocacy, visibility, the weaving of life, (re)existences, and narrative disputes, the research aims to assess to what extent the cyberspace, a significant educational network of our time, has contributed to the emergence of anti-racist agendas. Here, I propose to create an online cartography of Black narratives woven within social networks: Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. To access these narratives, I searched for hashtags such as #Blacklivesmatter, #vidasnegrasimportam, #racismoBBB21, #Cabelodojoão, and #CarrefourRacista. When visiting these hashtags, I seek narratives shared by ordinary Black individuals and publications from Black individuals with greater online engagement. When accessing authorship traces on social media, I pay attention to the production of Black subjectivities woven in the cyberspace. The timeframe in which this research was conducted coincides with the pandemic period, but I would like to mention that I revisited my memories, retold stories, and drew from my own experiences to develop this work. Therefore, the writing of this dissertation is influenced by my lived experiences (EVARISTO, 2022). This is a writing marked by my identity as a Black woman, a preschool teacher, a graduate student in Education, a lover of samba, a beer enthusiast, and a traveler, among many other facets that allow me to write/live, "escreviver," my existence. It's important to note that this is not a personal writing but rather a writing that aligns with many other individuals. This work is a celebration of the lives of Black people and also an act of denouncing the racist structures that operate to steal our souls.