As insubmissões de Francisca Trindade na sua trajetória como mulher negra (1980 – 2003)

Abstract

This research work was based on concerns and provocations arising from the stories and memories of invisibilities that still mark the lives and trajectories of black women. Because I am a feminist activist in the black social movement in Piauí and have experienced many of them, which are specific to the journey of black women from Piauí, I felt challenged to talk about these women based on one of them: Francisca das Chagas da Trindade, a black woman, from Piauí, human rights activist, who followed his path through social and political struggles in Teresina, capital of Piauí, culminating in party politics. To publicize the historical and organizational process of social movements experienced in the period from 1980 to 2003, a time when there was a cultural and political effervescence throughout the country, resulting in the emergence of countless leaders and black women had effective participation in the most diverse spaces, Francisca Trindade stands out as an unsubmissive voice in the city and throughout the state. This work seeks to understand what Francisca Trindade’s trajectory teaches us about non-submission. Using oral history as a methodology, through semi-structured interviews, with contemporary black women of Francisca Trindade and hemerographic sources, through newspapers and magazines. This dissertation addresses the trajectories of black women through socio-historical paths from slavery to the present day, contextualizing the organizational process of social and political movements in Teresina, especially in the 1980s - 1990s, such as resistance struggles and women’s participation policies black women, centralizing the presence of Francisca Trindade in the community and in parliament, in order to understand her contribution to Piauí politics, based on her insurgencies and insubmissions, in favor of the good life. To this end, the research is theoretically based on the ideas of black Brazilian thinkers Evaristo (2023), Gonzalez (2020) and Carneiro (2012); Davis (1981); Kilomba (2019) etc. Stories of black women in Piauí and in Brazil, they highlight their protagonism as representation and empowerment actions. The results of this research highlight the political participation of black women in Piauí, with Francisca das Chagas da Trindade as its central axis, which translates into non-submission and protagonism