Nothing to say or What do I do with ashes?

Paulo Emílio (Pinto)

Theme - "Nad(i)a dizer ou O que eu faço das cinzas" is a project of expanded auto/biographical reference, because it also touches the fabric and the social viscera. It is a particular sentimental cartography that has as its motto the concrete experience of affective losses in the pandemic and other losses (freedom to come and go, work, study, health, opportunities etc.).

"What do I make of the ashes?" will be the first search of how I can remember the affection, as devotion and denunciation, diminishing the pain, thinking also of the disappearance of my grandmother, my uncles and cousins, my friends and ex-students, acquaintances and the more than half a million people who were killed by the neglect of a corrupt, immoral and genocidal government, a reflection of a country that treats LGBTQIA+ people, like me and Nádia, in the same way. "What do I do from the ashes?" brings from the ancestral mythological dust the image of the phoenix, which from the grey smoke is reborn strengthened with hope, in expectation of some incarnation of poetic joy in the daily life of a harsh resistance.