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In this article, we reflect on the paradoxical spatialities of women participating in Poetry Slam events in Portugal. Poetry Slam is a poetic movement that holds significant potential for women to express themselves, create networks of support and sociability, develop joint empowerment and self-awareness projects, and question the inequalities to which they are historically subjected by the patriarchal power structure. Paradoxical space and intersectionality are the main concepts mobilized, due to the women poets being simultaneously plurilocalized, marked by the intersection of identity axes, but affirming their identities and centrality through spoken poetry. The article is organized starting from the presentation of the Poetry Slam movement, the discussion of intersectionality and paradoxical space emerging in this performative art. We then present the Poetry Slam scene in Portugal (case studies in the cities of Almada, Aveiro and Lisbon) to interpret the realities of women poets, information obtained through participant observation and interviews. The research carried out allows us to reflect through Poetry Slam, a competition where the poets find centrality by conquering spaces for transformation and resistance.

Keywords: Poetry Slam |Portugal | women | intersectionality | paradoxical space