Clots from the woman who didn't want to be

Clots from the woman who didn't want to be A lifetime of bleeding and crying. A lifetime of undoing the body to understand the body, to receive the body. This is configured in many ways. A woman disconnected from her womanhood loses her hair, loses her scales, becomes a porpoise. And a porpoise is a man, even if it’s a fish, and even if it’s female. A thing, ladies and gentlemen, is a thing. The other is a porpoise, and a porpoise is a porpoise, a woman is a woman, one is slippery and the other isn’t.

Body

04.06.2025 | by Manuella Bezerra de Melo

20 Navios”, by Ruy Guerra. The Chronicle and its Melancholy.

20 Navios”, by Ruy Guerra. The Chronicle and its Melancholy. The writer of '20 Navios' speaks to us of the chronicle and its melancholy, opening with “This (rear?) Window”, where he probes his identitary affiliations - the aforementioned triangle-: “From this window before me, when night falls, and Lisbon turns to dust beneath the anonymous city lights, I may imagine myself in Maputo, Havana, or Rio, or whatever other of my stomping grounds, but I know now that I can never fool myself, because I am inevitably alone, with my afro-latin schizophrenia.

Afroscreen

07.05.2011 | by Luís Carlos Patraquim