Encounters in Black Feminist Geographies That Ache and Bond
Priscilla Ferreira
Abstract
This article narrates Black feminist encounters that both reveal and shape Black geographies of Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on collaborative ethnographical work on Black community economies, I reflect on the temporality of activist scholarship, on community-accountable collaborations, archival violence, embodied knowledge, and subversive Black feminist research and writing. This paper questions the white heteropatriarchal academic culture/market of 'publish or perish' that is often debilitating to creativity and deleterious to the ways of feeling-doing in community-accountable scholarship. It argues for a deeply ethical, affective, rigorous, and necessarily slow scholarship allowing shared knowledge production to flourish before publishing.