PERIPHERAL WOMEN AND INTERSECTIONAL VIOLENCE: SUBJECTIVES AT CROSSROADS.
Intersectionality; violence; decoloniality; baixada fluminense.
With the high rates of violence against women, the absence of public policies aimed at the safety and collective health of women in the Baixada Fluminense and of studies that investigated these movements in the territory, we identified the need to understand, in the encounter with the community, what these women face daily social structures that seem to impose invisibility on them. The study proposed to analyze the structural arrangements that cross the subjectivities of peripheral women in the territory of the Baixada Fluminense. For this investigation, the renowned decolonial methodology of Escrivência was used, inaugurated by Conceição Evaristo as a subversive academic provocation. Field records were made through the logbook device. The field work was carried out at the Social Assistance Reference Center in Austin, in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, where there were conversation circle experiences, interviews with technical workers and monitoring of technical assistance. We verified through the path taken that, in addition to the classic violence (physical, verbal and sexual), the structural violence of intersectionality is inscribed in the community, family and institutional relations of the daily life of peripheral women. We follow obscure, challenging paths that are alien to minority struggles. Thus, knowledge was deepened in what we understand in society, as women, the periphery and who we call peripheral women. From the subjectivation pervaded by the structural crossroads, we expand the discussion of the intersectionality inscribed in these women. With this, we identified the various types of violence as a result of the oppressive structures of gender, race and class and analyzed the data considering the decolonial proposal. In addition to the potent (r)existences found, we managed, through the methodology used, to approach the existential territory experienced by women and their violent structural intersections in relationships, institutions, daily life, in short, in the capillaries, which are often naturalized and reproduce the structures colonial. So, at the crossroads that this work reveals, as power and (r)existence, we recognize its relevance in the urgencies of threatening silencing in its naturalized capillaries.