Black Women and Community Knowledge

Experiences of Resistance in Paracambi (RJ)

Abstract

This article reports on the experience of the “Café com Mulheres” project, carried out in the Vila São José community (Paracambi/RJ), focusing on the listening and mobilization of Black women. Based on talking circles, the study analyzes the intersections between obstetric violence, institutional racism, motherhood, and territorial exclusion. Using an intersectional and ethnographic methodology, it reflects on structural oppressions and everyday practices of resistance. Grounded in Black feminist authors, the article affirms the circle as a political practice and a space of reexistence in the face of life precarization in the urban peripheries.