‘Rio Negro, We care’. Indigenous women, cosmopolitics and public health in the COVID-19 pandemic

Weave another Basket of Knowledge? A remote collaborative research on the covid-19 pandemic

“…For Elizangela and Francineia, connected with many other women of different ethnicities who lived -in very different ways -in the region, an intensive exercise of study, of "researchaction" (Tripp, 2005) and experimentation began, to try to understand what was happening and mobilize the best ways to "Care" for their land and relatives. In this process, as we have amply shown in a previous article and in the Research Notes (Olivar et al, 2021;Costa, 2021aCosta, , 2021bFontes, 2021aFontes, , 2021bCosta et al, 2022), the investigation carried out by them and between them and their men was strictly collaborative, pluriepistemic and not guided by academic grammars: a huge network of women and men investigating and experimenting with new and well-known traditional remedies, blessings, ways of guarding and enclosing land and bodies, mythical explanations, allopathic medications, scientific explanations, religious explanations, "sanitary recommendations", as well as ways of managing information, collecting money, fabrics, masks, alcohol, food, gasoline and oxygen, through all possible partnerships.…”

“…In the case of Rio Negro, during 2020, the time of preparation for the project, the enormous role of Rionegrin women in the response to the Covid-19 pandemic became evident. At the same time, the research team was organizing and rehearsing the first forms of joint, collaborative and remote work, as well as the first attempts at analysis (Olivar et al, 2021) 6 . The base structure of the Rionegrin team and this Case Study was favored and shaped by the relationships built with indigenous women around issues of indigenous/ indigenist policy with/about women, gender, violence and "care" 7 .…”

“…To this end, we proposed to follow the hypotheses that had been raised in a preliminary exercise (Olivar et al, 2021) around the cosmopolitical character of this characteristically female response, and the relationship with the struggles and sociopolitical tensions of the Rionegrino indigenous movement and the women present there.…”

Criar um mundo pra si: agenciamentos de cuidado de pessoas trans, travestis e não-bináries para uma vida possível

“…Esta solidariedade coletiva como espaço de cuidado, formas de sobrevivência e resistência é construída por grupos dissidentes, perseguidos e violentados há tempos. Os quilombos ainda no período de escravização e extermínio dos povos indígenas, dos pretos africanos sequestrados e seus descendentes desde o século XVI demonstram que esses lugares já eram formas de resistir aos efeitos perversos e de abjeção, mas também de produção, transmissão e troca de saberesfazeres em arte, cultura, saúde, economia e cuidado (OLIVAR, 2021).…”

“…Para que sirva de mais documento que registre a existência de Andréa de Mayo e Cristiane Jordan e, principalmente, para que não só as dores e tristezas fossem registradas, mas também as lutas e potências delas/es. Uma das contribuições que esta pesquisa, inspirada e alinhada com várias autoras que trouxe por todas estas páginas OLIVAR, 2021; MELO; 2021;) é da impossibilidade de ignorar corpo da/o pesquisador/a no processo de fazer ciência. Toda pesquisa é produzida por um corpo, corpo este que tem cor, orientação sexual, gênero, idade, que veio de um lugar, que carrega marcas, preconceitos, inclinações políticas, limitações e interesses, não sendo possível assim separar criador/a e obra.…”