Bodies that fight... Bodies that exist... Bodies that register and write in difference, in education, in science, in the plateausletters, and in the anti-racistplateaus...

Abstract

Guiding us in the footsteps of intellectual intercessors of the Philosophies of Difference and Counter-Coloniality, in this essaytext we explore connections, pluralize meanings and challenge conventions that homogenize and reassure thought. For these reasons, we created concepts and invested in intertwining some theoretical notions, to provoke shifts in what is established, guiding us by the following triggering question: how is an anti-racist chemical science possible? Crossed by such agencies, we present the writing of plateausletters as a device in/for the anti-racist fight, based on a production carried out by Chemistry degree students from a public university in the Northeast of Brazil, as a possibility of building possible openings in education during classes in a mandatory supervised internship. From the appreciation of such examples, we perceive a plurality of directions and reading possibilities, which point to the power of research that is committed to bodies that are inscribed in difference. Plateausletters create, invent, ways of living life, reaffirming difference and black bodies, betting on anti-racistplateaus and writing as a cultural and possible artifact of anti-racist struggle.