Marias-Stories: homeless women, care policies, resistance

Abstract

This article presents a master’s degree research carried out with adult women living on the streets, based on guide stories experienced, heard and remembered in the river-cartography process that develops it. Narratives direct the course of these waters, with events that open visibility, denaturalize, tension and convoke analyzers. Macro and micropolitical dimensions are problematized, with a close look at resistance, care policies, SUS, RAPS, SUAS, the Covid-19 pandemic, questions of intersectionality - gender, race, class, sexuality - and also the colonial-capitalist logic that produces realities, misery, inequalities, violence. Cartography as a research-intervention methodology designs this study, which seeks to accompany the homeless population in territories in the city of Santos/SP, with records of experiences in Field Diaries, with their intensive writing, in procedural data cultivation and analyses. The potential of subjective reforestation, of transvaluations, of aquilombamento in the fabulation of nomadic care, are thought of as Cruzeiro do Sul compasses, counter-colonial. A perspective of creating resistance, of reenchanting discourses, practices, of producing knowledge ethically and aesthetically involved with the power of life, of rivers, of other worlds.