Escrevivências dos cuidados de yalorixás negras, filhas de Oxum em Maceió

Abstract

The present research aims to expand the understanding of Afro-Brazilian religions in Alagoas through the practice of epistemological disobedience. The narrative assumes an Afrocentric, religious and ancestral perspective of care that goes beyond health based on the centralization of the orixá Oxum as a guide for survival policies in the territories ascribed during this production. I fill in the lines that weave ancestral knowledge through writing as a decolonial methodology capable of describing and expanding the narratives of black yalorixás who protagonize care practices in the terreiros of African origin in Maceió (AL). Thinking and making each line is a true run of Oxum through the lines, affections, hugs and diasporic black hands that, in the midst of racist daily life, recognize in ancestry the mirror that empowers reflecting the self that we are, in the sword that fights for freedom and in the water that flows between the stones found in the course of the river. Arrive, get affected, arm yourself and watch out!