This article investigates the power of queer performances through an analysis of Bixarada, a work by racialized queer artists. This power emerges from a dialectic of violence and care: the performance enacts the racist and transphobic violences endured by the artists, yet simultaneously produces political care, forging a new community. The article then considers how this dialectic informs queer performance more broadly, showing that they all confront the questions of violence and the necessity of care that shape queer existence. This dialectic is particularly pronounced in Bixarada due to its intersectional dimension: racialized trans artists experience both violences and the need for performative healing more intensely. Intersectional performances thus reveal this dialectic as a core force of queer performativity.

O tráfico negreiro e a escravidão são eventos que estruturam as sociedades, os imaginários e as memórias dos povos afro-atlânticos, e também penetram na estrutura narrativa das narrativas literárias produzidas em ambos os lados do Atlântico Sul. Este artigo examina a presença do Brasil na África, com base em fontes históricas e literárias. Sem a pretensão de determinar os textos por seus contextos, analisaremos as marcas desse contato nas produções literárias africanas (francófonas) e brasileiras, conforme elas se relacionam com as complexas relações de poder, históricas e sociais, entre o Brasil e a África.

Paying participants is an established practice in clinical research, but it is also becoming common practice in social science studies in the UK. Nevertheless, it remains a subject of debate in all fields. This practice was used in the context of fieldwork on young fatherhood, carried out in the UK between 2016 and 2019, by a PhD student in British civilisation at a French university. Payment was introduced into the fieldwork after three months of unsuccessful recruitment. The aim was to show recognition of the effort made by the young fathers who took part in the study, however there needed to be an ethical framework. This article uses the testimonies of young fathers, collected during the fieldwork, about their motivations to take part in the study. In addition, the testimonies of professionals working with young fathers are also used to demonstrate the usefulness of remuneration in social science research.