Este barulho te incomoda?! potência política de travestis negras em Salvador frente a negação de direitos e às múltiplas violências: aceita que dói menos!

Abstract

Here you will find thinking in the singular and plural. I write in articulation with theories, authorial poetry and individual/collective experiences of black transvestites, living in Salvador - Bahia. I reaffirm their places as co-authors, narrators of experiences of their life trajectories. This is a conversation among black, trans, cis, and transvestite women, in an activist-intellectual movement in favor of decolonization of knowledge, via what I call Words - Razor-Sweetness that Sets Free. It is a study anchored in Black Feminist and Transfeminist Social Thought of the Quilombola Amefrican intellectuals Maria Beatriz Nascimento, Lélia Gonzalez and Thiffany Odara, in a theoretical-methodological-political-affective-symbolic ciranda with other references, whose perspectives are convergent. My activist-intellectual, personal, and professional trajectory occupies a social place of speech, located in an intentionally political perspective, situated by the different oppressive intersections, exponentially determined by race, gender, and class, given the denial and disallowance of the intellectual dimension of black people, mainly, black women, cut by academic epistemicide. To reference these places is also to demarcate my ethical, political, professional, and symbolic commitment in the context of the struggle against racist transphobia that affects black trans women, the transvestites, and cis women, in ways that approach and distance themselves, considering our specificities. From this place I know, recognize, and problematize cisgenerity as a structure that materializes the logic of necropolitics in the lives of non-cis people, with the direction of DESeducating and disobey pedagogies that prevent the construction of spaces that are for all people, aligned with the political and pedagogical legacy of individual and collective movements, led by black trans and cis Brazilian women. The methodological path goes through a survey and bibliographical study, systematization of the theoretical framework organized by chapters and axes crossed by the intersectional perspective, articulated with semi-structured virtual interviews with the co-authors. The political-cultural-ideological concepts of Amefricanity, Quilombo and Travestilizing education are located here as epistemological and methodological tools to understand the political and pedagogical character of the potency of black transvestites. The organization of references relies on the practice of inventorying, being a study that aims to highlight, enhance and strengthen the struggles led by contemporary black transvestites, showing that although they are targets of violence and denial of fundamental rights, they undertake (R)existences from their own body-territory and to politically influence public policies and daily social relations are configured as purposes that are individual and collective, towards the guarantee of their rights and recognition of their condition of humanity.