“I’m afraid of being monogamous again”
non-monogamy and the dilemma of relational anarchy in the covid-19 pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i21.58765Abstract
This article aims to discuss non-monogamy from the perspective of black people, paying special attention to how this arrangement was thought and articulated during the time of covid-19 pandemics. The emotional discourse about fear provides us clues to understand the unfeasibility of putting into practice the principle of relational anarchy, interpreted as the “ideal” for non-monogamy. We realize that, on one hand, there is a fear of dying as a result of encounters with other people, and the virus that is ravaging the world; on the other hand, the fear of approaching a monogamous model of relationship and everything it involves stands out, given the restrictions imposed by physical isolation. The methodology used was the combination of content analysis of posts within the Facebook group Afrodengo – Amores Livres and in-depth interviews with its founders. The results suggest that the fear of returning to being a monogamous person, felt by the interlocutors, has to do with overlooking some aspects of relational anarchy, or being more distant from them during the pandemic.
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