Every Black Woman is a Quilombo: Unveiling Violence and Honoring Women’s Role in the Construction of Quilombagem

Abstract

This article explores the protagonism of Black and Quilombola women in the maintenance and reconfiguration of quilombos as spaces of counter-colonialism. It analyzes the multiple violences that affect them, intensified by the intersectionality of face, gender, and class, and how their bodies become territories of affection and resistance. The research, based on a literature review, unveils female action in overcoming invisibility and in the tireless struggle for autonomy and dignity. Challenging patriarchal-racist-capitalist logics, they forge the continuity of Quilombola ways of life amidst persistent structural challenges.