Becoming Black woman: Self-writing in an intersectional place

Abstract

The article seeks to understand how the identity subjectivation process produced by contemporary Black women who tell their life experiences in the blog Blogueiras Negras articulates and which are its effects. For the study, autobiographic narratives published in this intersectional place were selected. The analysis starts from some reading keys provided by Michel Foucault and other authors that join the post-structuralist thought. The movement of becoming Black women shows subjection and subjectivation processes that happen through an ethical and political self-work. As from the identification with the Blackness and with the Black Feminism, the writers establish other ways of relation with themselves and with others (Black women/men and White women/men), which have been producing new outlines to Brazilian ethnic-racial relations.