Opponent-Poet: coping strategies in the experience of daily racism

Abstract

Based on news announcing the number of murders by State intervention and the deaths present in most cases of Covid-19 in Brazil, countless artists made their rhythms available to denounce the “narcissistic whiteness pact” and it’s gears of silencing the violence, torture and genocide of the black people. This article seeks to demonstrate from a decolonial perspective, how black poets produce the reinvention of bodies in the midst of the daily mourning caused by the necropolitics. It was elected “Instagram” and “YouTube” as territory-track, so that some of the poems that make up this article could be analyzed. The selected poems were those with the greatest circulation on the given day. We conclude that the opponent-poet is armed in dispute for the meaning of life. Their rhymes reach every corner, they are manifestations of countermemory, they circulate between embodiments that make it traffic on the atmosphere of the world, producing subjectivity.