Politics, politikos, polis, city. Living in society is a political act.
' Oh, here come the feminists saying everything is political .' Yes it is and thinking differently does not exclude you from carrying out political acts all the time. The way we live, relate, eat, work, communicate, even the oppressions we suffer keep the gears of the social structure in (mal) functioning.
Nobody wants to be responsible for a patriarchal, racist, capitalist and colonial society dominated by misogynistic straight white European men, but all, all and all, we keep them in the mold of the colonizers and we are responsible for guaranteeing historical reparation. We cannot change the past, only the future.
That is why education and care for children are so important in the search for the world we idealize and for which we resist. An African proverb says that 'it takes a whole village to raise a child' . Well then, the well-being and development of small children is a responsibility of the mother(s), father(s), State and society.
They need to see us practicing the actions that will overthrow the structural oppressions that dehumanize more than ⅔ of the population.
They have the right to know the history of their ancestors, how they were torn from their homes or forced to serve the invaders and massacred, humiliated. They have a right to know that the world we know, including the democracy we fight for, is a social, vertical construction erected by and for misogynistic straight racist white men to stay in power.
We live in Brazil, one of the countries that is part of Latin America, but does not consider itself part of it. “More evolved. More developed,” they say. Here, where most of the population has indigenous and black blood in their veins, almost nobody knows who their ancestral people are. Now, ask about European ancestry or “where does the last name come from” and you will hear a thousand stories about the ninth who fled the war and came here. The history of forced migration reflects the nostalgia of the “first world”. Not that wars aren't horrible and it's very plausible to want to flee, but they forget to mention that white Europeans won land, which wasn't even theirs, to come and live in Brazil. It is not known about the raped ancestors and/or the rapist ancestors, but the light-eyed descent is known.
It seems like 500 years since cis, white, sexist, racist men, pretending to be Europeans, run the country, right? How about decolonizing thought and transmitting the true history of Brazil to future generations?
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Luana Angreves is a journalist, responsible for communication at PEITA and cultural stimulator at Cliteriosa Comunica.
Photo: Duda Dalzoto.
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