The Power of Naming Brazilian Feminist Antiracist Intellectuals in Digital Platforms

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feminism- antiracism- intellectuals – digital platforms

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This article examines the practice of naming antiracist women intellectuals as a form of feminist digital activism in Brazil. It analyses tweets referencing Carolina Maria de Jesus and Lélia González, studying their transnational circulation, the appearance and relevance of hashtags, the users that are most frequently mentioned and the different topics they mobilize in social networks. It combines the tools of a feminist decolonial digital humanities, intellectual history and what has been called “distant reading”, through which it seeks to study naming Latin American feminist antiracist intellectuals as techno-discursive practices. The main conclusion is that digital practices of naming Brazilian antiracist feminist intellectuals on Twitter are powerful forms of creating and mobilizing social meanings: 1) they subvert global and intellectual canons and hierarchies; 2) they take advantage of the technical possibilities of digital platforms, but instead of privileging advertising and self-promotion, they stress an egalitarian logic. 3) the form and maintain collective identities and solidify counterpublics

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Alejandra Judith Josiowicz, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Tem experiência na área de Estudos Culturais na América Latina. Licenciada em Letras pela Universidade de Buenos Aires - UBA (2007), é Master of Arts in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures (2010) e PhD in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures (2013) pela Princeton University (PU). É Professora Adjunta no Departamentos de Letras Neolatinas (LNEO) do Instituto de Letras (ILE) da Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Foi Assistant Professor no Department of Foreign Languages e no Program for Latin American Studies da Rutgers University (RU). Realizou estágio de pós-doutoramento no PPGHCS na Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC)/ Fiocruz. Tem pós-doutorado no Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil (FGV-CPDOC) com bolsa PNPD-Capes. Foi Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellow na Princeton University, bolsista do Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) e do Princeton Latin American Studies (PLAS). Foi Pesquisadora do Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudos de Gênero (IIEGE) e do Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). 

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2023-10-20

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