Ediclea Santos: the voice of the black Woman that makes The Bird sing louder

Abstract

This is another writing (we have many and others will come from many others women's) by a black woman who recognizes another black woman as an inspiration for action, struggle and epistemological reflection. It is also a dialogue with Audre Lorde about the transformation of silence into action and the organization of anger by black women into political and transformative action, configured in a tour of the power generated by pain of the black women (Dororidade by Vilma Piedade) and black women's lives writings (Escrevivências by Conceição Evaristo). Our character is a feminist, black woman, peripheral, singer, actress, mother of 03 children and one daughter, she is also a grandmother. Ediclea Santos (Clea) the black woman who sings the women of Passarinho, her neighborhood, singing loudly and echoing beyond the local walls. Clea has a flame for the singing, for the community, for the gathering of silenced voices, but she doesn't sing or speak for others, she articulates, moves, instigates and provokes agitation. She is one of the organizers from the Espaço Mulher de Passarinho (formerly the Kombeiras), of Ocupe Passarinho, her activism is articulated in the Pernambuco Women's Forum (FMPE), in the Black Women's Network of Pernambuco (RMNPE), in the Articulation of Brazilian Women (AMB), and has been making democratic sewings and mixtures with different movements. It's about black potencies, it's about transforming pain into potency, about black women's ethics and poetics.