"Perifa" has arrived: funk as a resource for empowerment and transformation of reality for black women in the Federal District.
Escrevivência; Funk; Black Women; Rights; Empowerment.
The history of Black women, often told from a sexist, racist, and classist perspective, subalternizes these bodies and silences them. It is through Conceição Evaristo's methodology of Escrevivência and an intersectional approach that this work is constructed. The proposal to speak about Black women from Black women in the Federal District belonging to the peripheral funk scene enables other narratives to be made visible, and discourse to be more coherent and articulated to their experiences, allowing us to see and hear what these Black women have to say from their own reality. This work seeks to understand and analyze to what extent the peripheral culture of funk becomes an agent of reality transformation (or not) for Black women residing in the capital of Brazil. Using a qualitative theoretical lens, we will reference Escrevivência as an important part of the exercise of autobiographical narratives, and work with concepts such as intersectionality, by Kimberle Crenshaw and Carla Akotirene, and positionality, by Patrícia Hill Collins, with the intention of building a more representative dialogue of the reality conveyed by these female funk artists. Another very important characteristic of this work is to use the concept of research coparticipants, rather than research subjects as per Filice and Carnaúba (2019), from an anti-racist and anti-sexist perspective. Building the entire work together with those who are part of it at the feedback stage aligns with the intention of operating in a two-way street, where both sides of the research can feel comfortable and represented with the writings that will be present here.