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Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
Alongside rising fascism in Brazil, we also see the rise of indigenous women's feminist movements. I ask how we can walk alongside them, building a feminist anthropology and a gender policy capable of combating neoliberalism and growing fascism.
Paper long abstract:
Gender has come to the center of fascist agendas. In 2017 Judith Butler came to Brazil and suffered hate attacks for talking about gender. She asked, “who is afraid of gender?” inviting us to develop a gender politics that opposes neoliberalism instead of transforming it into its instrument.
Fortunately, we see the rise of indigenous women's feminist movements. In 2019, the first March of Indigenous Women happened, and in 2021, ANMIGA (the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry) emerged. Regional organisations are also popping up, such as the Women's Movement of the Xingu Indigenous Territory. In a General Assembly in late October 2024 feminism was a recurring topic.
If indigenous women in Brazil talk about being ancestral warrior women, but also about being root women and seed women (ANMIGA Manifesto), I ask how we can walk alongside them. I seek to analyze their strategies and to reflect on the possibilities of building a contemporary feminist anthropology that aligns with a feminist politics capable of combating neoliberalism and growing fascism.
Conceptualizing patriarchies and feminisms from the frontiers