The urban ethnography, written in informal language by a slum dweller, brings the verbal outlines of the thoughts of someone who has suffered the marks of social segregation, aporophobia, racism and misogyny. Quarto de Despejo, written in the format of a diary, raises the interweaving of the themes of gender and housing, allowing us to identify the intersectionality of gender, race, and class in the social production of space. Prior to the formulation of the feminist theoretical scope on fighting inequalities, Carolina emerges from poverty, alien to academia, identifies pertinent social issues, and produces archetypes that allow for confrontation with later postulated theories. More than half a century after her first publication, it is still possible to see in practice how these issues remain entangled and without adequate confrontation, adding other components. Thus, using the literature review method and centered on a historical-descriptive understanding, the considerations presented are about gender theories, which can be debated from the perspective of social rights and the public policies produced, comparing the literary work and the sociological perspective
Texto autorizado pela autora e editora a partir do livro Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals. Ano de publicacao: 2019. Paginas: 121-126. Duke University Press. Uma versao anterior deste ensaio foi publicada em Medicine Stories, 1998, Editora South End Press.
This interview aims to disseminate the genealogies of self and the embodied thoughts of two Indigenous women, bringing their looks and ways of existence to the political-epistemological discussion of embodied feminisms. For this, we interviewed two female leaders of the Potiguatapuia Movement/Ceara, who are part of different generations, in order to listen to them about their existence and becoming as Indigenous women inside and outside the villages. Thus, Dona Teka Potiguara and Dona Marlucia Potiguara recovered their childhood trajectories, life in the village, world readings on being born, dying, and caring, transits to the city, studies, and social relations. We also heard them bring into the dialogue the particularities of their intersections with other women's movements, sharing their thoughts about territory, belonging, spirituality, and about how ancestry offers them an embodied genealogy that “comes from within” is “red” and comes from “flesh”. We were four university women and a young Indigenous Tupi/Nheengatu scholar involved in the interview process, so our identification will not appear in the body of the interview.
Originally published as Tempo Brasileiro, Rio de Janeiro, no. 92-3, pp. 69-81, Jan./Jun, 1988.
The skin that separates us? Is a question about life, reproduction, care, time and good to live worlds in socionatural world. This question emerges from our places of feminist mothers and researchers artists situated in polimatic dialogues between anthropology, theatre, butoh dance, agama fo method, midwifery/doula and other areas whose skins are difficult to separate. Our essay is the result of a creative work that began in 2018 with the twin pregnancy of the performer and the company of the artist doula. The movement of the pregnant body lead us to the deep original land of all of us. We have created three performances, from which we selected the current images.
