I intend to systematize in this article some debates that are perceived as central to black American feminisms, taking as subject of analysis American and Brazilian intellectual women, addressing their singularities and the complementarity of their speeches and discourses full of affections and examples of lives. Considering the feminist epistemic turn of the last decades, which departs from the concepts of intersectionality and (de)coloniality, I propose some parallels based on the location of black intellectual women, mapping the protagonism of marginalized subjects, who bring their experiences to academic theories and to political confrontation, inspired either by the voice of Sojourner Truth, in the USA, or by the “life-writing” (escrevivência) of Conceição Evaristo, in Brazil, together with the confidence in the orixás and the respect toward an ancestry of African matrix. Localized speeches that are told or written in first-person emerge from these narratives and they confront hegemonic epistemologies, bringing new proposals to academia and posing new and old challenges to history and historiography at present time.
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Veiga, A. M. (2020). An epistemological (black) feminist turning point: Concepts and debates. Tempo e Argumento, 12(29). https://doi.org/10.5965/2175180312292020E0101
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