As contações das que “não contam”: cascalhos, aranhas e passarinhas numa análise de uma política municipal para mulheres

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze the intricacies of the constitution of policies for women in a Secretariat (SM) created for this purpose in 2021, in a small town in the interior of Rio de Janeiro, under a management in tune with the then fascist federal government (2019-2022). The text consists of three parts. The first part announces the methodological proposal and discusses the research pathways. This is the moment when we inhabit the trails we have experienced, talk about what hasn't been and the paths chosen. And we do this in this power that is cartography, here amalgamated with literature, feminisms and decolonialities. Drawing up a cartography is in line to being attentive and immersed in the shifting terrain that is assembled and disassembled in everyday life. In relation to our field of research, we are interested in activating sensitivity to capture the lines that are in dispute for affirmation in the arena of intensities that gain contour from the masks attached to public policy proposals for women, as well as activating the magnifying glass in the invisible to find the intensities that escape, searching for new meanings to be materialized. In the second part, we focus on bringing up the encounters with the women of the gravel roads, based on Nephila's golden threads. Named after a species of spider found in the Atlantic Forest, our cartographer-listener-feminist narrator brings up experiences from meetings with three users who came closest to our work from February to December 2024 by pulling epistemological and literary golden threads. The gravel that was used as a metaphor, inspired by Woolf's writings, also points to the reality of the rural districts of the municipality where SM is based. In the third part, we look at the operating policies of the SM offices, as well as the resonances of the management commands in tune with the conservative governances aimed at women that have occupied space in the federal sphere in our country. For this analysis, we took as our starting point the apex of the fascist right, whose main figure was Damares Alves, at the head of the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights (MMFDH) during her term - January 2019 to March 2022. To this end, we constructed literary scenes, born from the floor of the SM not only to bring up feminist resistances, with the creation of a different labor logic through poetic resources in the face of the misogynist scenario. And all of this was done with the help of the methodological tools mentioned above, but also by thinking in an intertwined way about the daily life, the permanence and non-permanence of professionals and users in a space that announces itself as intended to guarantee women's rights, but which presents itself as a provider of victims, objects and a factory of female types. So, with literary resources as an organizing and affective resource for creation in the midst of the misogynistic atmosphere in which the SM operates, we have composed another logic of living, resisting and operating that compiles resistance and agency based on the emergence of the “stories of those who don't tell stories”, the becoming of little birds.