Political femicide in the waters of the feminist tide: leaving pessimism for better days

Abstract

The present text addresses the electoral theme with a movement in two poles: the first one paddles against the current of the pessimism of the intellect in face of the double Brazilian tragedy in times of pandemic towards the optimism of the will, catching a breath with the feminist tide and the expressive triumphs of feminist candidacies, especially of black women, indigenous, trans, and feminist collectives – an emerging and powerful phenomenon in Brazilian context. And in this perspective, we put ourselves in motion at the second pole of reflection, placing ourselves as “organic intellectuals” and having as political strategy to seek from our praxis in the field of education, especially in the context of women teachers' formation, to highlight the struggle for daycare centers as a historical locus of women's movement, of feminist struggle, problematizing the sexual division of labor, aiming to add to the processes of professionalization and politicization of teachers, one of the central points in the collective creation around decolonizing pedagogies.