WHAT DID RACISM DO WITH YOU?

Colonization, the memory of slavery and racism negatively impact the self-esteem and subjectivity of black women, causing us to internalize inequalities, the feeling of being second-class citizens and that some spaces do not belong to us, and this daily inferiority contributes for the denial of black identity. In order to understand this process, we articulate the narratives of black women who are part of the Black Women Network of Bahia (Rede de Mulheres Negras da Bahia) with Decolonial Studies and Black Feminism. The option to work with these women is due to the fact that it not only brings out the subjective dimension of racism, but also makes the transition process of denying black identity to its affirmation in the trajectory of these women equally public. That is, we seek to publicize the processes of decolonization of their subjectivities, breaking with the colonial logic that imposes only one possibility to exist, that of the hegemonic group.