Indigenous Women: knowledge and actions in the pandemic

Abstract

This article intends to describe how the activities of the Working Group – Indigenous Women – knowledge and actions in the pandemic. The aforementioned Working Group was proposed and carried out during the II Gender Journey, which took place from April 14th to 17th, organized by the study group Gender – Culture and Displacements/UERR. The idea is to explain that the Working Group  was held in a conversation circle format, taking advantage of the participation of subscribers as listeners. The group was mostly women and followed an ethnic pattern of participation with indigenous and black women. The methodology was implemented through the participants' narratives based on three generating questions, according to Freire (1986) posed to foster the debate about the actions and knowledge of women in their daily lives in times of pandemic. Nine women participated, including the coordinators. In the end, we consider that the  Working Group space built in this event is an achievement for the discussion of gender to take place with the intersectionality of ethnicity. That violence against women is, without a doubt, a recurrent theme when discussing relationships between knowledge and everyday activities, especially in times of pandemic.