NA LINHA DE FRENTE DA COVID-19 NAS FAVELAS CARIOCAS:

A resistência decolonial das mulheres de Rio das Pedras no enfrentamento da pandemia.

Abstract

This article aims to highlight the daily practices of women in coping with the consequences generated by the pandemic at Rio das Pedras, a slum located in the west of Rio de Janeiro. We tried to analyze such practices from a decolonial feminist perspective, making visible the decolonial political resistances translated by self-organization in the struggle for favela’s life. If in times of “normality”, favela women have been at the center of lot political mobilizations, as in the case of the fight against removal of slums in the context of mega-events, the health crisis scenario has also pointed to a female resistance of daily sociability as a strategy of survival. To list these social dictates from the perspective of the women of Rio de Pedras corresponds to the convocation proposed by the decolonial resistance that invites us to map the silences and aspirations that the dominant narrative does not allow to pronounce.