“E eu não sou uma mulher?”: Feminicídio negro como um mecanismo de fazer morrer em vida corpos de mulheres negras

Abstract

Considering the different forms of suffering of black women in Brazil, this dissertation sought to think about black feminicide beyond biological death. For this critical questioning, I sought approximations with the thinking of Achille Mbembe, which made it possible to understand how black women “die while alive”, through “invisible killings”. Thus, Mbembe's formulations on necropolitics, alongside Fanon's thoughts on humanity and the zones of being and non-being, were fundamental in building a basis on which it was possible to think about black femicide in a broad sense. In addition to these considerations, I sought to see how Mbembe's work could dialogue with the propositions of black feminists, such as Carla Akotirene, not only to generate a new look at black feminicide but also to enable the confrontation of deaths in life through the writing of itself and art. To this end, the dissertation dialogues with two artistic materials: M8- When Death Helps Life and Luedji Luna's visual album ''It's really good to be under water''. Without losing sight of all these theoretical-methodological considerations, it is in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic that the research and writing of this dissertation took place: looking at a reality that is getting worse day by day, under the logic of the precariousness of women's bodies black women, in which I was also included. That is why this work must be read not only as research, but also as a report, a testimony, a denunciation and a cry. That's why: Oh Neide, oh Neide, oh Neide Finish