feature: pretxs, a new web-documentary series about race, sexuality, gender and class from the perspective of four young black brazilians

PRETXS, new Brazilian web-documentary series, brings issues of everyday life of those who are compelled to deal simultaneously with the oppression of race, gender, sexual orientation and class.

Directed by Jay Viegas, a 23 years old graduate student, and launched by Vaidapé Magazine, the mini doc entitled PRETXS shows four young woman and men who are forced to face several oppressions for being black, LGBTT and residents of the outskirts of São Paulo City. Other issues as black identity, affective life and colorism comes while they tell us their experiences.

In four episodes to be lanched along February, the director Jay Viegas interviews Ezio Rosa, Fernando Ribeiro, Luana Hansen and Rafaelly Domingues.

“I decided to shoot the series basically because I was tired of seeing LGBTT people always being portraited as white, young, skinny and rich, and black people always being portraited as broke, agressive and straight. Also, and even though I know we’re all somehow united by the diaspora experience, the little that I could find about being black and LGBTT would always come from places like the U.S or Europe, and well, let’s face it, our realities are very different. So yeah, with the help of some very awesome friends and the backup of Vaidapé, this is what came out. I guess I’m just trying to help people not to go through what me and many others had to go through, feeling like we’re alone in our journeys, like we don’t really fit anywhere. It’s really all about representativity and creating a sense of community”, Viegas says.

Watch below the series trailer and watch the first episode (both with subtitles in english) below.

By Robin Batista*, AFROPUNK contributor

“Robin Batista is a Brazilian designer, student in Afro-diasporic Visual Arts, editor at AFROGUERRILHA and AFROPUNK contributor.”
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