“The teachers did not know what to do to me!”

intersectional reflections of a disabled black woman

Abstract

This qualitative study aimed to analyze the intersections between gender, disability and race/ethnicity that make up the identity aspects of a black woman with a disability, an academic in the pedagogy course. In this sense, we sought to reflect on the following important questions: How do gender, race/ethnicity and disability issues produce and identify identity aspects in this woman's life trajectory? How can feminist disability studies contribute to understanding the intersections between gender, disability, race/ethnicity analytically and politically? With regard to the data collection instrument, we chose to use a semi-structured, dialogic interview, with open questions, answered by WhatsApp audios due to the pandemic moment, leak by the Covid-19 virus. Along the investigative path, it is sought that capacitance anchors all interdependent and interconstitutive systems of exclusion and oppression, along with racism, sexism, the narrative of participation, mandatory present in the most diverse spaces and spheres, reported from their experiences and experiences. As reflections developed here, they pointed to the importance of the transversality of disability in gender policies and the need to incorporate debates on this theme in the history of feminisms in an intersectional way.