THE ANGER AS CATALYST

THE USES OF ANGER IN BLACK AND LGBTQIAPN+ BRAZILIAN POP MUSIC

Authors

  • Talita Ferreira Gomes da Silva Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63418/ep3bxz42

Keywords:

Anger., Pop music., Blackness., Sexual dissidence., Black feminism.

Abstract

This article analyzes the uses of anger in pop music produced by Black LGBTQIAPN+ artists in Brazil, based on a corpus comprising "* bomba pra caralho" by Linn da Quebrada, Alice Guél, and POV3DA (2020); "Ain't I a Woman?" by Luedji Luna (2020); and "Não é comigo" by Rico Dalasam (2021). Drawing on Audre Lorde's reflections on the political uses of anger, articulated with the thought of bell hooks, Patricia Hill Collins, Lélia Gonzalez, and Grada Kilomba, the paper argues that the anger expressed in these texts is not emotional excess but an epistemological affect: a form of knowledge, resistance, and reinscription of Black and dissident subjectivities in the political and sensory field. The analysis also considers pop music as a cultural mediation device capable of circulating historically marginalized discourses, producing fissures in cisheteronormative and whitened hegemonies. The article was developed in the context of the course "Poéticas do desabrigo: circulações de mundos no contexto da Diáspora Negra", at the Graduate Program in Letters: Literary Studies at UFJF.

Author Biography

  • Talita Ferreira Gomes da Silva, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)

    PhD candidate and holder of a Master's degree in Literary Studies from the Graduate Program in Language and Literature at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), with a master's dissertation titled "(Re)counting the (Ac)cursed Writer, Cassandra Rios: A New Count of the Author's Books and an Interdisciplinary Investigation into Lesbianism, Censorship, and Literary Marginalization," dedicated to the study of Cassandra Rios's work, with an emphasis on the processes of silencing and exclusion within the literary field. She holds graduate certificates in Textual Editing and in Education, Gender, and Sexuality from Faculdade Iguaçu, in addition to a bachelor's degree in Portuguese Language and Literature from the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF). She is currently pursuing doctoral research funded by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES – Brazilian Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination), furthering her investigations into lesbian literature, censorship, pornography, and women's authorship, and consolidating a body of critical work centered on the relations between literature, gender, and dissidence. She is a member of the editorial board of Darandina Revisteletrônica (ISSN 1983-8379, Qualis A4 in the 2021–2024 quadrennium), a journal organized by graduate students of the Graduate Program in Language and Literature: Literary Studies at the Faculty of Letters of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Brazil), in partnership with stricto sensu graduate students in Literature from other institutions.

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BOMBA pra caralho. Realização de Linn da Quebrada, Alice Guél e POV3DA. [S.L]: Produção Independente, 2020. Son., color. Disponível em: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpJ5q9htevs. Acesso em: 20 jul. 2026.

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Published

2026-09-03

Issue

Section

OPEN THEME

How to Cite

FERREIRA GOMES DA SILVA, Talita. THE ANGER AS CATALYST: THE USES OF ANGER IN BLACK AND LGBTQIAPN+ BRAZILIAN POP MUSIC. Coletivo Cine-Fórum Journal, [S. l.], v. 4, n. 1, p. rccf000137, 2026. DOI: 10.63418/ep3bxz42. Disponível em: https://revistacoletivocineforum.com.br/index.php/cineforum/article/view/148. Acesso em: 3 sep. 2026.

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