Tramas interseccionais de violência contra mulheres defiças em Alagoas

Abstract

In Brazil, anthropological research on gender-based violence does little to help understand specific frameworks, such as that of women with disabilities. The goal to address this issue, which is intertwined with ableism, comes up against the limits of information on this group. Using the ethnographic research method, established a dialogue with six disabled women and two mothers of disabled people from the state of Alagoas. The starting point for the ethnographic encounter was three short stories I produced based on stories of violence taken from scientific research on the subject, which show expressions of physical, sexual, psychological and moral violence, etc. This resulted in a series of digital message exchanges and online meetings in which women broke the silence about their own experiences. The narratives break the silence about violent experiences, as a result of multiple embodied oppressions. The work also describes the emergence of disabled women's activism in Alagoas. The Association of Women with Disabilities of Alagoas (AMDEAL), which I am also building as a researcher and disabled woman. I sustain that defiça women are overexposed to physical, psychological and sexual violence, due a segregate structure that deepens gender-based violence that women in general experience.