A MOURNING THAT DANCES

Abstract

:The following article is based on the author's dissertation on the moral, symbolic, and emotional consequences of a criminal episode of police violence that became known as the Luana Barbosa case, which occurred in 2016 in the state of São Paulo. While the dissertation analyzed discursive materials from versions covering the occurrence from the defense and prosecution, the following work brings an analysis of a phenomenon that marked and continues to singularize the mourning and recognition process of the victim as a banner of the largest lesbian movement in São Paulo: the event of the "Sarrada no Brejo" party. The party, in itself, is an original gathering of lesbian and peripheral activists in homage to Luana Barbosa, but through the displacement of relationships of meaning among the participants around mourning, it promotes the production of a new territory for thinking and living black, peripheral, and lesbian erotisms - always in a state of alert. By observing the surroundings of funk and pagode, the two musical genres that flow and guarantee the event and its behaviors, I analyze how the sensual performance and sets of practices involved in the Sarrada no Brejo party redefine stereotypes and reposition Luana Barbosa as a life and pleasure existence, and not just another victim of police violence and São Paulo's racist oppression.

Keywords: Lesbians; blackness; victim; funk; violence.