Special Edition
Resilience and Resistance: My Indigenous Anthem
These verses celebrate the indomitable spirit of indigenous peoples, whose existence is inseparable from the natural world.
Following the maracá and engendering “deotherization” in decolonial collaborative research
The AWÊ, orchestrated by the maracá was a daily reminder of the rightful owner of the space that I sought to enter. Little by little, intersections and communalities among us became apparent.
Maracá in Resistance: Amplifying the Voices of Indigenous Women in the III Indigenous Women’s March
As an active participant in this historic event, I was deeply touched by the immense articulation and potential for transformation through collective action, especially within the context of Indigenous women's pursuit of their rightful place in society.
Maracá around the World: Empowering Indigenous Women through the Power of Ancestry
My transformative journey as Tamikuã Pataxó, an empowered Indigenous woman who crossed oceans to a destination that had previously existed only in my dreams: Sweden
Maracá: Shaking the History of Brazil – A Symbol of Resistance and Change
The world is in constant transformation, human beings, nature, earth are all in constant change, so how to write about the experience lived in field research in such a way that the "vivacity" is maintained during the writing of the text?
Girl’s Feminism – networks of Power and Coping
In mid-2015, São Paulo students started a movement to occupy public schools in protest of the project to restructure the state school system. Generally speaking, the restructuring consisted of relocating students, especially high school ones, to fight the closure of several teaching units in the state of São Paulo to centralize students in schools appointed by teaching leaders, without considering the places of work and housing of students. The strong pressure from students across the state led the government to repeal the project, ending student actions in the state. The following year the movement spread throughout different Brazilian states with diversified agendas and became known as Secondary Spring
Jokana, culture, tradition and identity
Jokana means women in patxohã. Patxohã is a Brazilian indigenous language spoken by the pataxó people, mostly living in the extreme south of Bahia. The language is still alive in the community, taught at local schools, and mixed with Portuguese in daily life. Much is discussed around the importance of the role of women in society nowadays, around the world. And, if these women were seen as potency and as divine beings.
Black women (Dandaras) and the struggle for an anti-racist education: Reflections on the impact of the “Enegrecendo a Academia” Project
The Dandaras Collective put into practice the dream of making the monitoring project available and aiming to organize the activities held a call for new participants. This text aims at presenting an experience report on the systematization of data from the Project Blackening the Academy and present the next steps of a collective that keeps moving to build an anti-racist education. With a qualitative approach and using the methodology of bibliographic and documental research, this work presents a brief theoretical discussion on epistemic racism and the need for plurality within the academic field and presents the data of the activities carried out between 2020 and 2022.
The right to scream of transvestite and transsexual womenhood
Being and becoming a woman in this country is not a simple task, and belonging to the dwarf race in women's rights makes us highly vulnerable. An academic title and a legitimation as a trans researcher from the perspective of human rights do not exempt me from still being violated in my basic inalienable rights.
Special Edition Women of Brazils. Women migrants: new rights and old issues for renewed citizenship
As a research and studies center, BRaS aims at promoting and supporting collaborative works. In the week we celebrate international women's day, we have invited three researchers to join us for the Special Edition (SE) No. 6: Women of Brazils. In the next five weeks, we will present some of the different women who are part of the Brazilian reality: migrant, trans, black, indigenous, and high school students. Today the researcher Claudia presents a text about Brazilian migrant women. We hope you all enjoy the reading!