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lesbianidades negras, gordas, mais velhas e com deficiência nas plataformas de mídias sociais

Abstract

Lesbianities find, under the algorithmic curatorship of social media platforms, a double specificity: at the same time that you have established a circulation of content that was not present in other media ambiences, its circulation is restricted to people that already have browsed about the subject. That way, the platforms allow some visibility to issues related to vulnerabilities, but also, most of the time, they limit such visibility to the public who is already familiar with them. Even among the audience groups related to lesbianities, the bodies shown are, in their majority, of white, slim, young women, with no disability and that perform femininity. Therefore, we have an accumulation of algorithmic biases that make less visible lesbian women as a whole, but, between them, they reserve even less visibility for black, defeminized, older, with disabilities lesbians. Such hierarchy is given in dialogue with gender norms. Adding up heteronormative patterns, taken here from Rich (2019), Wittig (1980), Segato (1997) and Lorde (2020), to the rich get richer algorithmic logic (CIAMPAGLIA, NEMATZADEH, MENCZER & FLAMMINI, 2018), we can see which content that reflects patterns more widely accepted tends to have its circulation expanded. But it is necessary to realize that the lesbian's visibility on its own can be taken as also composed by resistance - even though, through the algorithmic mediation of social media, platforms amplifies the hegemonic traits that it composes. So, the same networks that deprive us from expanded circulation are tools for the publication of discussions politicised by black, peripheral, fat, old lesbians. It is to them that this article turns.