Não é fumaça, é fogo! Cruzada antigênero e resistências feministas no Brasil

Abstract

Resumo: Eventos recentes posicionaram o gênero no cerne da vida pública brasileira. Neste artigo, descrevo dois processos imbricados a isso: a cruzada antigênero e a eclosão da “primavera feminista”. A primeira, estratégia católica transnacional, emergiu no Brasil em 2014. Anos depois, parlamentares pró-impeachment declararam votos em favor da família e contra a “ideologia de gênero” - expressão habilmente apropriada por uma poderosa coalizão dentro e fora do parlamento. Em 2018, a campanha antigênero voltou aos debates nacionais com a candidatura de Jair Bolsonaro à presidência. O rechaço ao candidato agregou milhares de mulheres nas redes sociais e nas ruas, formando o movimento #elenão. Porém, não se tratava de reação repentina ou inédita: as resistências das mulheres têm demonstrado a potência de suas alianças e contestado a tese da “cortina de fumaça” que rotula as táticas do atual governo.

Mending the Divide: Lessons from LGBTQ+ Movements for Latin American Studies

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“…Since their inception, LGBTQ+ movements in Latin America have been accused by other progressive movements of being bourgeois, distracting from the ‘bigger issue’ of class struggle and, at times, from opposition to dictatorships (Corrales and Pecheny, 2010; Pecheny and de la Dehesa, 2011). Still today, government engagement with gender and sexual diversity is often seen as a ‘smokescreen’ to divert attention from supposedly more important issues (Melo, 2020: 4).…”

Brazilian Anthropology as seen in ABA data for the Global Survey of Anthropological Practice. From an imaginary nation to a defense of rights

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