Um olhar ético, erótico e errático para o racismo a partir de anúncios de orgias barebacking sex

Abstract

With an essayistic tone, this thesis takes a look, among several possibilities, at racism, based on advertisements for the orgy parties Cabbaré (SP) and Surubada dos Leiteiros (RJ), dedicated to the practice of barebacking sex, that is, anal sex between cisgender men when performed, in a planned and conscious manner, without an external condom. Leaving questions about HIV and AIDS and risk, traditionally related to barebacking sex, out of my focus, I look at the images of those advertisements from an ethical perspective, not a moral one, with the aim of analyzing how racism constitutes these images and how they also evoke racist forms of physical and symbolic violence, attributed to black people since Brazil was a colony of Portugal, but which also account for the ongoing black genocide in which this country recognizes itself as a nation. The advertisements for the barebacking sex orgies Cabbaré (SP) and Surubada dos Leiteiros (RJ), which constitute the empiricism of this research, function not as a finishing podium, but as a starting point for the discussion on racism proposed here, closely related to my trajectory as a cisgender, black, homosexual man, in a particular diaspora. Objectivity, therefore, does not figure among the qualities/defects of this thesis, which talks about lust, at the same time that it talks about confinement, recognition, self-recognition and, above all, identity as a privilege. In this sense, I also propose a problematization of the communicational epistemes of indifference that, historically, structure the field of Communication in Brazil, just as I seek to place the reader in the midst of my wanderings through the states where these lines were created, Pará (PA), Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and Minas Gerais (MG), reverberating in each of these words. Furthermore, the thesis is structured as a gesture of reconciliation with my past, in order to envision possible futures.