Discourse on the loneliness of Northeastern black women

Abstract

The purpose of the present research was to understand the 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 participating in the reality show Big Brother Brasil 2020, addresses the issue on the air. To this end, we base ourselves on digital ethnography that relies on textual tracking online and 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.