“Women’s Front of Movements in Cariri”; “feministfield”; “intersectionalities”; “agency” and“ political practices”.
“Women’s Front of Movements in Cariri”; “feministfield”; “intersectionalities”; “agency” and“ political practices”.
I seek to inquiryinto the specificities of the political practices of a self-designated feminist social movement that works in the region of CaririCearense: “the Women's Front of Movements in Cariri”. I identify its insertion in / among discursive fields of feminist action and other mobilizations that are linked to political fights that configure the Brazilian feminist field. In this sense, I highlight in the interlocutors' narratives the importance of interpretive struggles, which involved their differentiation in relation to the local experience of the SlutWalk and their growing bond with the field of black feminism. The dispute over political grammarat the national level is resignified locally based on differentiation axes such as gender, race, generation, class, religion and regionality. In a second piece, I operationalize some of these questions in the ethnographic analysis of the events on the march agenda, in which political actions of the “movement” produce symbolic effectiveness in dialogue with the cultural context of Cariri, as well as demonstrating local universities as spaces for debate, articulation and resistance to the activism of the Front, making it possible to build an agency