(Con)figurações femininas nos desvãos da ordem patriarcal: uma leitura feminista de A vida sonhada das boas esposas, de Possidónio Cachapa / (Con)figurations in the Patriarchal Breaks: A Feminist Reading of A vida sonhada das boas esposas, by Possidónio Cachapa

Resumo: Fundamentando a investigação no feminismo decolonial (LUGONES, 2020; VÈRGES, 2019), o propósito deste trabalho é empreender uma discussão acerca do modo como se apresentam personagens femininas e as relações de gênero no século XXI no romance português contemporâneo A vida sonhada das boas esposas (2019), de Possidónio Cachapa. As personagens femininas constituem o fio condutor de uma narrativa situada em um Portugal cosmopolita contemporâneo que, embora interligado pelas tecnologias das redes sociais, mantém resquícios de ditames que remetem aos ideais de família nuclear propagados pelo Estado Novo (1933-1974). Assim, discurso e poder patriarcal perpassam e são determinantes das relações sociais da narrativa, sobretudo as que envolvem a protagonista Madalena que, apenas após a morte do marido, percebe-se como sujeito e passa a experimentar a vida desse novo lugar, a partir do qual estabelece relacionamentos próprios e não mais circunscritos ao seu papel social de esposa. Considera-se o feminismo como pressuposto filosófico do romance uma vez que a narrativa aponta, por meio das figurações femininas, para modelos existenciais múltiplos. Trata-se, portanto, de uma inscrição de modelos existenciais diversos no lugar da tradicional identidade feminina única, fixa e presa aos papéis de gênero estabelecidos por uma ordem patriarcal que, não obstante, ainda apresenta vestígios de um pensamento colonial.Palavras-chave: feminino; figuração; feminismo; Possidónio Cachapa.Abstract: Supporting the investigation in Decolonial Feminism (LUGONES, 2020; VÈRGES, 2019), this work aims to lead a discussion about how female characters as well as gender relations in the 21st century are presented in the contemporary Portuguese novel A vida sonhada das boas esposas (2019), by Possidónio Cachapa. The female characters compose the thread of a narrative placed in a cosmopolitan and contemporary Portugal that, while connected by the social media technologies, shows traces of the Novo Estado (1933-1974) diktat ideals about nuclear families. Therefore, the patriarchal discourse and power are determining of the social relations in the narrative, mainly the ones involving the protagonist Madalena who, only after her husband’s death, realizes she is a subject and comes to experience life in this new place where she establishes her own relationships no longer based on her social wife role. Feminism is considered the philosophical foundation of the novel once it points to multiple existential models through female figuration. Consequently, it is an inscription of diverse existential models instead of the fixed gender roles established by a patriarchal order. Nevertheless, there are still vestiges of a colonial thought.Keywords: female; figuration; feminism; Possidónio Cachapa.

Queer and Trans* of Color Critique, Decolonization, and Education

The increase of transgender visibility and politics correlates with a renowned interest in gender equity in schools. The diversity of trans* and gender-expansive social identities, along with divergent conceptualizations of the meaning transing/trans*ing, ontology, identity, and embodiment, produces a wide range of ideal and pragmatic approaches to gender equity and justice in education. Fields and analytical frameworks that emerge from Decolonial Feminism, Queer Indigenous Studies, Queer of Color Critique in education, Jotería studies, and transgender studies in the United States have unique definitions, political commitments, and epistemological articulations to the meaning and purpose of transing/trans*ing. These divergent articulations of trans*ing often make projects of transgender equity and justice incommensurable to each other, or they converge at the various scalar aspects of equity design and implementation. By historicizing, or re-membering the rich body of decolonial modes of trans*ing bodies, knowledge, and selves, trans* of color critique in education research makes trans* justice possible by disrupting white-centric approaches to transgender inclusion that may fall short in the conceptualization of trans* justice and what makes a trans* livable life for queer and trans people of color.

Decolonial Approach to Leadership: Latin American Women in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Canada

The absence of Latin American women in positions of authority and power is indicative of the career limitations they face. This paper examines the leadership experiences of Latin American women who are leaders and reside in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). I apply a decolonial feminism approach and the concept of intersectionality to examine the intersection of race, gender, and class. Also, I employ qualitative research using 10 in-depth semi-structured, individual interviews. I find that current Latin American women leaders still face barriers that prevent them from continuing their advancement in leadership positions. These barriers include racial and gender discrimination, negative stereotypes, scarcity of networks and mentors, and the struggle to achieve a work-life balance.

Turning outwards or inwards? The experience of a Mexican indigenous model of community-driven and intercultural education in a globalized world - La Universidad de los Pueblos del Sur

The neocolonial undercurrent of internationalization that drives educational policies and standards, imposes a EEUUrocentric worldview and perspective of human development upon the global South. Beyond the discourse of international cooperation, this vision sustains what Quijano describes as the ‘coloniality of power’ that deepens inequalities between universities of the global North and South. In Latin America, there are various alternative educational projects, including indigenous universities that turn inwards toward rich pluriversal contexts, histories of resistance, and diverse tapestries of knowledge to address local problems and train youth to generate new horizons for ongoing indigenous and afro-mestizo social movements. This article is a reflective analytical account of our seven-year experience as volunteer educators at the Universidad Intercultural de los Pueblos del Sur (UNISUR) from an intercultural and decolonial feminist perspective. Founded in 2007 in southern Mexico, UNISUR was formed as a grassroots indigenous university of and for the original peoples of Guerrero state. Our account disrupts the hegemonic vision of an internationalized education that sustains racialized ‘colonialities of power’ and instead proclaims the right to self-determination, to the empowerment of women, and to an education based on principles of decolonial epistemic equity. Key words: Pedagogy, Indigenous Education, Epistemology, Decolonial feminism, History How to cite this article: Méndez-Bahena, A., Domínguez-Corona, A.R., Méndez-Bahena, N.E. & Brito-Millán, M. 2021. Turning outwards or inwards? The experience of a Mexican Indigenous model of community-driven and intercultural education in a globalized world - La Universidad de los Pueblos del Sur. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. 5(1): 107-128. DOI: 10.36615/sotls.v5i1.163. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Decolonial Feminism and Global Politics: Border Thinking and Vulnerability as a Knowing Otherwise

Decolonial thinking has introduced border thinking as an epistemological position that contributes to a shift in the forms of knowing in which the world is thought from the concrete incarnated experiences of colonial difference and the wounds left. In this chapter, Argentinean feminist philosopher Maria Lugones’ (1992) interpretation of Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands foregrounds its main argument: border thinking as an embodied consciousness in which dualities and vulnerability are central for a decolonisation of how we think about the geo and body politics of knowledge, coloniality, political economy and of course, gender in International Relations and Global Politics.

Entre dogma y resistencia: arma verbal y rehabilitación de la conciencia de mujer en la erografía contemporánea

This present reflection focuses on the theme of the feminist revolution from the linguistic area. We intend to highlight how the female narrator instrumentalizes the verb and expressiveness in the search of effects that are usually disruptive of the systemic developed around the phallus. This work investigates, then, the instrumentalization of the linguistic sign from a subversive perspective of the exclusive sexist discourse. Relying on decolonial feminism –given that the colonial matrix is the small daughter of the patriarchal dogma–, we try to shed light on how novelists use erographic expressiveness to question the self-proclaimed sovereignty of men over the logos, and also to break the values that have been traditionally attributed to sexism. Thus, this study contemplates the feminine logos de-censored from its sexist obstacles as a weapon of resistance and transgression against the ideology sustained for a long time by the phalocracy

Queer (af)filiations: Houria Bouteldja and decolonial feminism

This article analyses Houria Bouteldja’s conceptualisation of decolonial feminism as a product of the queer (af)filiations between past and present socio-cultural, linguistic, and epistemological resources and as productive of dynamic, but also strained, transactions across generations, epistemologies, and material realities traversing a variety of local and global geographies. This analysis is framed in reference to specific social, cultural, political, sexual, and linguistic anxieties that inform the socio-political stances adopted in Houria Bouteldja’s ideological investments in the decolonial generally and in decolonial feminism specifically. Finally, the article will propose the notion of queer (af)filiations as a productive interface through which to articulate a socio-political project inclusive of all decolonial members of the postcolonial situation and a more nuanced understanding of translocal and global (af)filiations within decolonialité.