I took my son to see Madonna and minorities expressing themselves without fear

“Babe, do you want to see Madonna?”. A great friend, who is outside Brazil, has another great friend, who works at Itaú, and who had seen my previous column, where I said I didn’t know if I would go to Copacabana, asked the question that woke up the teenager from the 90s who now speaks to you. “He wants?”.

I don’t even know how I did it. I don’t remember the crowded subway, the walk to the entrance of the show, the steps to the square meter that embraced my 48 years of existence. When I saw it, I was already there, and how good it is that we have the courage to listen to chance and recalculate our routes.

Two days before that, the sound check had already given me an early Mother’s Day gift: showing my youngest son the importance of the most revolutionary artist of the 20th and 21st centuries.

“But, mom, I have a physics test.” Bento, whatever, you explain to your teacher that you went to see a neighborhood taken over by minorities who, for a few days, were the majority. And that’s why they were able to express themselves without fear. That you went to see the city stop to see a 65-year-old mine that throughout its history gave a voice to those who didn’t have one, and that to this day takes risks and exposes itself in the name of causes that allow, for example, the female sex do not be seen as an inferior gender. Not to mention the LGBTQIA+ community, which has a historic ally in Madonna.

Showing my boy that our fights should be his, that we are not against men but need them to be with us was my bicycle goal of 2024.

Just as it was moving to see William Bonner presenting JN directly from a devastated Porto Alegre, or watching the businessman who brought the show to Brazil crying with emotion in a supposedly formal interview. Men who cry, men who come together at crucial moments, men who care, who are vulnerable – that’s what we call strength.

By the way, to those who place the American pop star’s event as an opponent of the Rio Grande do Sul tragedy, a reminder: there was no funding from the Union in the epic spectacle offered by Madonna to the Brazilian flag, and reserves of joy are necessary for a nation .