SELF WRITING, [R]EXISTANCE AND SUBJECTIVITY

Abstract

It is proposed to think about the complex relationship between self-writing, subjectivity and resistance. I will speak from my black, gay and candomblé corporeality, that is, I speak from subalternity, from my sensitivity and as a black subject who experiences the diaspora and everyday racism. The writing of the self, as a rite of passage, transforms into the emancipation of the black people insofar as it summons ancestry to an experimentation and a search for freedom of itself through the writing of the self in the world, because I face the writing of the self as a practice and resistance to a patriarchal and white supremacist society that disempowers and dehumanizes us as subjectivity and as. In this way, self-writing is a political war machine that invokes a new ethics and a new aesthetic of black [r]existence.