MY HAIR IS NOT ONLY AESTHETIC, IT'S ALSO POLITICAL: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND VISUAL NARRATIVES

Abstract

The present work aims to discuss the trajectory of black women who assume the protagonism of their own lives. They use visual and verbal narratives in social networks as tools of empowerment and identification, valuing their stories and sharing experiences. Women who move at all times, and are connected to social networks in order to extend their struggles, resist the standards imposed historically and socially, create their own directions. In dialogue with some written and visual narratives, the work shows the importance of social/educational networks for social movements. In addition, how much everyday stories contribute to combating the practices of oppression, discrimination and violence suffered daily by many women. In this sense, some thinkers chosen as a theoretical-methodological basis help the reflection: the author (with her heteronym of) bell hooks (2005) from the perspective of reference writer in several discussions including on the implications of hair in the identities of black political militancy and Mailsa Passos (2014) with the contributions of the "methodology of the meeting", in which we believe that doing research in the field of education is "meeting the other", listening to their narratives (with attentive listening) and knowing that in every encounter there is an exchange. Moreover, when I met epistemologically with these women, I recognized myself in each of them.