“Turn your neck the other way”: stories of affections and love between lesbian in Manaus/AM (Decade 80 and 90, century XX)

Authors

  • Michele Pires Lima Universidade Federal do Amazonas - UFAM
  • Júlio Cláudio da Silva Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA); Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM)

Keywords:

Lesbianities, Family relations, Love, Manaus

Abstract

This article aims to historicize the forms of affection and deep love in the experiences of black and afroindigenous lesbian activists Francy Junior and Sebastiana Silva in Manaus, in the last decades of the twentieth century. For this purpose, Oral History as a methodology was used, which contributes to the tracking, gathering and analysis of the narrated memories of individuals and the recording of their personal impressions and participation in historical events, reaching subjects such as daily life, education, social relations, forms of activism and the presence of affective-sexual relations, thus recognizing the harmful effects of patriarchy and compulsory heterosexuality, which hinder the addressing of passions among women, lesbianity being a component capable of destabilizing structures of oppression. Thus, we propose to contribute to the turning point in the history of oblivion of lesbians, especially black and afroindigenous lesbians who are/have been silenced by the intersection of social oppressions, possibilities for other individuals to narrate their memories and these to be analyzed historically.

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Author Biographies

Michele Pires Lima, Universidade Federal do Amazonas - UFAM

Doutoranda em História Social pela Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM/FAPEAM). Mestra em História (UFAM). Membro da Diretoria da Associação de Travestis, Transexuais e Transgêneros do Estado do Amazonas - ASSOTRAM.

Júlio Cláudio da Silva, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA); Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM)

Holds a degree and bachelor’s degree in History (1997), specialization in History of Brazil (2000), master’s degree in Social History (2005) and doctorate in Social History from the Fluminense Federal University (2011)with a post-doctoral degree developed under the Postgraduate Program in History ? Fluminense Federal University (2019-2021); with a postdoctoral degree developed under the Society and Culture in the Amazon Graduate Program of the Federal University of Amazonas. He has experience in the area of History, with emphasis on History of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, working mainly on the following themes: History of Brazil, History of Post-Aabolition, History of the Black Movement, History of Gender Relations, Oral History and Memory. He is a researcher at the Laboratory of Oral History and Image of the Federal University of Fluminense; coordinator of a research group, Group of Historical Studies of the Amazon/ UEA and the Center of Afro-Brazilian StudiesBrazilians from the State University of Amazonas at the Center for Higher Studies of Parintins (2014-). He was Director of the Northern Regional Section of the Brazilian Oral History Association (2014-2016). He was Vice President of the Amazonas Section of the National History Association/ ANPUH-AM (2016-2018) and Coordinating Member of the Northern Section of the GT National Emancipations and Post-abolition/ ANPUH (2013-). He is Associate Professor Level A at the University of the State of Amazonas, at the Center for Higher Studies of Parintins and Permanent Professor of the Graduate Program in History of the Federal University of Amazonas.

Published

2023-07-06

How to Cite

PIRES LIMA, M.; DA SILVA, J. C. “Turn your neck the other way”: stories of affections and love between lesbian in Manaus/AM (Decade 80 and 90, century XX). Revista Ártemis, [S. l.], v. 35, n. 1, p. 114–136, 2023. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs/index.php/artemis/article/view/63632. Acesso em: 24 dec. 2024.