EXPERIENCES OF PREJUDICE EXPERIENCED BY SELF-DECLARED GAY BLACK UNIVERSITY STUDENT

Abstract

This study analyzes practices of racism and prejudice against sexual diversity, experienced by a self-declared black and gay university student. This is a qualitative study, guided by feminist epistemological presumptions, which used the concept of intersectionality as a tool to capture the oppressions experienced around two axes of subordination: race and sexuality. Narrative interview was used as a technique, characterized as an unstructured and in-depth methodological research strategy, with the data discussed based on the Critical Discourse Analysis based on the structures of discourse and power relations as fundamentally producers of subjects. Was found the presence of spatial segregation, production and maintenance of negative images associated with the black population, was also racial and sexual ranking (hirarquization) and inferiorization in the establishment of affective relationships. We propose, as an ethical-political tool, the destabilization of the multiple oppressions produced by the paradigms of universal modernity – male, white and heterosexual – as a possibility of fighting for higher levels of social justice and equal rights.