Through zines and poetry slams: the construction of maginal social
networks and the poetry produced and edited by black women in Belo
Horizonte (2018-2025)
Networks of sociability. Zines. Self-publishing. Peripheral poetry
gathering. Women's literature. Black literature
This thesis investigates the networks of sociability constructed to ensure that
Black and marginalized women, affected by racial, gender, and social violence,
are able to produce and materialize poetry, creating conditions for production and
reception outside the traditional publishing field. As a methodology, the study
employs the analysis of the urban space of Belo Horizonte and peripheral literary
gatherings such as Coletivoz, Afrolíricas, Roda BH de Poesia, and Sarau das
Manas, within the time frame of 2018 to 2025, the period in which the research
took place, using interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks on the construction of
the Brazilian literary field and the intersectionality of race and gender,
complemented by interviews with organizers of these gatherings and authors of
the zines, as well as the analysis of selfpublished zines. It is possible to perceive
that these gatherings function as an instrument of struggle for the right to the city
and as "quilombista" spaces of resistance, while zines serve as tools through
which authors inscribe and position themselves in the world. They act as a means
for participating in the cultural scene or sustaining their identities as writers
through alternative editorial initiatives, reaffirming that the poetic existence and
production of these women are grounded in collectivity and in the reappropriation
of writing as "escrevivência".