DISCOURSE ON THE LONELINESS OF NORTHEASTERN BLACK WOMEN

Resumo

The purpose of the present research is to analyze and try to understand the many discourses generated on Twitter regarding the loneliness of black women from the Northeast of Brazil. These discourses found uptake when Flayslane, a black woman from the Northeast who was taking part in the 2020 edition of the reality show Big Brother Brasil, chose to address the issue on the air. To this end, we base ourselves on digital ethnography that relies on textual tracking online and draws heavily on the concept of indexicality. With an understanding of language as action as our point of departure, we establish a dialogue with theoretical perspectives related to intersectionality. The data generated allow us to infer that performative speech acts point to discourses that reinforce the loneliness of black women from the Northeast of Brazil.