Female Space in Slam’s Poetry Competitions: the Resistance Speech in Gabz Performance

Abstract

Slam’s competitions or battles have been understood as a poets social urban movement. – Suburbs Slammers, who get together in public spaces for a spoken poetry competition, where presente issues are debated in politicized and poetic ways. The movement has received greater view through digital media, through publications by Slam communities in their virtual platforms, revealing the virtual space as an importante mean for the exercice of subpolitics. Considering the exposed, this article aims at analyzing the poetic performance by the Young Slammer Gabz, from its “speech origin”, as understood by Djamila Ribeiro (2017), in which she denounces violence against black women in the suburbs.