Cartografias femininas negras como estratégia de divulgação científica: a experiência do “Investiga Menina!”

Abstract

Science and scientists, historically, are represented in astereotyped way associated with gender and race issues. In this text, we talk about the demystification of the scientist's vision, as only a male, white, European subject isolated in his laboratory. For this, we promote actions called “Intercultural Experiences”, in which two black Brazilian scientists are invited to talk about their life trajectories and their scientific research, in different spaces, contributing to the dissemination of science in our country. Through participatory research and making use of conversation analysis, this study analyzed and discussed one of these interventions investigating the partnership between the university and the black women's movement led by a Non-Governmental Organization from Goiânia–Goiás, and we analyzed a researcher's way of exposing the epistemological aspects of chemical knowledge in a situation of scientific dissemination. In the end, we conclude that the promotion of the intercultural meeting of contemporary black scientists and black women in the social struggle made the partnership effective, providing the dismantling of racist and sexist ideologies about the contribution of black women in science and technologyand that scientific language, in this context, can be adapted using analogies to understand a lay audience.