“BLACK FAIGHS” AND THE PRODUCTION OF DECOLONIAL NARRATIVES IN MEDIATED EVERYDAY LIFE

Abstract

The article is part of an expanded research, whose main objective is to problematize the uses of YouTube as a tool for vocalizing subjects marginalized by white supremacy and cis heteronormativity. Based on interviews with digital influencers, self-identified “black faighs”, the text seeks to reflect on the production of decolonial narratives in the mediatized environment, in different tensions. Without disregarding the current context, which includes the logic neoliberal and the information system of algorithms, we investigate the media platform based on the dynamics of the circuit of affects and affectations, which produces a tangle of interactions and testimonies of mutual recognition. Based on the reflections and findings, we indicate a proposal for “intersectional media quilombos” guided by affective communions, in which narratives produced in these channels indicate that they function as a catalyst for the formation of afro-centered gay-tribalisms as survival tactics in the face of the subalternization of these existences.