SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION BASED ON THE POLITICAL AGENCY OF A QUILOMBOLA WOMAN FROM THE LOWER TOCANTINS: AN ANALYSIS BASED ON AN EXPERIENCE REPORT

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.558562514033

• Palavras-chave: Amazonia; Decolonial; Latin America; Feminism.

• Keywords: Amazonia; Decolonial; Latin America; Feminism.

• Abstract:

  Thinking about a process of decolonization from a feminist and intersectional perspective is a social and political challenge that requires reformulating, reconstructing and reviving Latin America within the political agency and articulation of multiple subjects. Observing the differences is fundamental if we are not to fall into reductionist commonplaces that disregard the diversity of the continent and its peoples. The aim of this paper is to consider the perspective of political action within the political action of a Quilombola woman, representing her community, and her account of the experience of participating in the March of the Daisies in Brasilia 2023. This narrative was based on and analyzed by Lélia González (2018) and the idea of mestiza consciousness by Gloria Anzaldua (2005), among other authors. The methodological perspective was the analysis of the experience report, with an intersectional bias relating class, race and gender, and contemporary decolonial thinking. The results indicate that the political and social participation of Quilombola women in different spaces strengthens their communities and allows them to continue strengthening themselves in defense of their identities and territories.