Abstract

FRANCA NETO, Jacqueline de; LIMA, Fátima  and  OLIVEIRA, Luiza Rodrigues de. Racism, Colonial Trauma, and Agency: The State Forum of Black Women in Rio de Janeiro. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.spe, pp.1479-1498.  Epub May 27, 2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2022.71757.

The relationship between racism, subjectivity and colonial trauma has increasingly been debated in the field of studies and research in Psychology. This paper focuses on the processes of subjectivation, taking into account the relationship between racism, gender, and colonial trauma, as well as the possible agencies that emerge in the lives of black women activists. We adopt intersectionality as a black epistemological and methodological lens. The discourses and practices of women who are part of the State Forum of Black Women of Rio de Janeiro assume the leading role in this study, creating a space permeated by political agencies of re-existence and demand for black women’s voices, listening, and actions. It can be considered, from the performance in the forum, that consciousness and participation in a collective black female political institution act as a driving force both in public spaces, as pressure on the power of the State, as well as preparing black women for microcapillary and everyday spaces. Therefore, it was possible to perceive how the agency of black women can return the colonial trauma to the world through a collective mystic quilombola for “good living”.

Keywords : race; racism; black women; colonial trauma and agency..

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