Favela é moda, Beijinho no Ombro e Linn sem Mordaça: corpos periféricos que atravessam, negociam e traduzem mundos

Abstract

The interest in what emerges from the edges – cosmological, geographic, conceptual, existential, subjective – of the world, with its movements that insert and distill heterogeneities in hegemonic spaces, drives this research. It starts from a seam of theories, concepts and knowledge, coming from plural places of speech and life, to think about how what such insertions produce reverberates in the legitimized constructions of a post-colonial world. Understanding fashion as one of these hegemonic spaces, three events that flirt with it, but depart from existences and aesthetics which are not located in the Eurocentric world references that support it, are chosen to give substance to this thesis. They are: the creation and acting of Jacaré Moda, a modeling agency in Favela do Jacarezinho, in Rio de Janeiro; the arrival of Linn da Quebrada at Big Brother Brasil 2022, wearing a t-shirt printed with the Anastácia Livre work; and the song video Beijinho no Ombro, by Valesca Popozuda, recorded in 2013. Each of them encourages us to look, beyond their contours, at the fraying of certainties, the questioning of privileges, the shuffling of references, and many other displacements, that the presence of irreducible difference triggers the exclusionary and exclusivist circuits that crystallized in colonial principles, which are less and less sustainable. In this sense, they encourage thinking about the production of difference that is generated from the difference that generates difference, and with it the impossibility of control over such production, which means, in the end, the impossibility of control over the places where each body will occupy and, consequently, on the maintenance of the colonial division of places in the world. The path is inspired by the concept of Rizoma, as a research method, which accounts for the movements of the world in constant creation and transformation. And the force lines which guide the writing are created in the confluence of the voices of Conceição Evaristo, Achille Mbembe, Deleuze and Guattari, Grada Kilomba, Nego Bipo, Luiz Antônio Simas, Luiz Rufino, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Davi Kopenawa, among others.