Networked spaces have shaped new dynamics of sociability, enabling the intertwining of
different historical-social contexts, a multiplicity of groups, organizations and subjects with
different profiles of action and social and political mobilization, which have reached new
heights from the contexts driven by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It was in this scenario
that capoerista paraense Sabrina Silva used Facebook lives to spread the female capoerista
movement in Pará. In view of the above, this study aimed to analyze how the internet became
a locus of political action for women capoeiristas during the pandemic in 2020, based on the
case study of Sabrina Silva's Lives. To carry out the analysis, we adopted digital ethnography
as a method, which is an adaptation of ethnographic analysis for the study of online cultures,
aiming to explore and expand the possibilities through the constant use of digital networks,
posting the material collected. With regard to the theoretical framework, we selected, among
others, authors who work on issues related to capoeira, such as Nestor Capoeira (1999), Letícia
Reis (2000) and Luiz Augusto Leal (2005); authors who discuss social movement relations
today, such as Manuel Castells (2014) and Maria da Gloria Gohn (2011); authors who debate
issues of gender, race and class, for example Anne McClintock (1995) and Kimberlé Crenshaw
(2002); and theorists who discuss the digital ethnography , namely Beatriz Lins, Carolina
Parreiras and Eliane Freitas (2020). As a result, it was found that social media was
appropriated by women during a period when physical meetings were suspended, in order to
spread a struggle so important to the construction of Brazilian culture, thus highlighting the
power relations present in capoeira and its possibilities for expanding discussions on the
subject and giving it more visibility.
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