PARA UMA PANDEMIA, UM REPERTÓRIO DE FEITIÇO.

Silêncio! O velho é o dono do mundo.

Abstract

This article presents a testimony that began to be prepared at the end of March (2020) after the announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO) that we were facing a Covid-19 pandemic. I am the chief of the department of an undergraduate course, I am a black woman, lesbian and ‘macumbeira’, who has lived in the Amazon, in the city of Santarém, in Pará, since 2011. The first part of this paper recounts some episodes of how the university where I work received the news of the pandemic and it was gradually, due to the incisive performance of many other professors, the staff and students, closing the doors and preventing the face-to-face activities to continue despite more erratic guidelines from some sectors of the institution. What is happening is a auto-etn(Ori)graphy notes and analysis of how we black women who have worked in public universities in the country put our political action repertoire to protect our Black communities. In order to think about what kind of anti-racist actions we have done, I bring some analytical tools that have been located within some philosophical conceptions of the traditional communities of Terreiro. In this regard, I will use the notions that define what the ‘Exus’ named Lalu and Gelu to help us to describe what we as Black women professors have been doing at this moment full of dangers brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the “serial death policy” that has been conducted by the Federal government in Brazil.