IMAGINANDO O FUTURO PARA EXISTÊNCIAS QUARE

Abstract

Do the global North and the global South offer distinct challenges? If the elaboration of an answer to this question touches, even minimally, the problematic of colonialism and its impacts, it will be clearly affirmative. Considering, therefore, literary productions undertaken by Black sexual deviant writers (quare) located in these two geographical spaces, we will approach their texts from the perspective of family/kinship constitutions. Focusing on the dismantling of preconceived models of such formations, but also of race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, we will undertake a reflection that enables us to think about a future – or futures – for quare lives, still constrained by white and cis-heterocentric hegemony. The theoretical framework under which this study is carried out is based mainly upon the contributions of Hooks (1992; 1995), Johnson (2005), Kehl (2013), Young (2016), Macharia (2019), De Morais (2020) and Nigro; Soares (2022).