"WE HAVE FEAR, BUT WE DON´T USE IT": Feminist rural narratives of the Northeastern Movement of Rural Women (MMTR-NE)
Rural Feminism; MMTR-NE; Northeast; Self-definition
The Northeastern Movement of Rural Women (MMTR-NE) is a rural, anti-racist and agroecological feminist movement, built by rural workers from the nine states of the Northeast Region in Brazil. Together, they have been self-organized for over thirty years in the political struggle and in the strengthening of their diverse identities, articulating an significant production of their own narratives through different languages. The revolutionary process of self-definition of rural women - one of the keys of the black feminist thought, which emphasizes content produced with a specific and authentic character, replacing the externally defined images - is in open opposition to the hegemonic narrative linked to the colonial power matrix of the cisheteropatriarchy white capitalism. From a black and decolonial perspective, the present work investigates the epistemic power of the counter-hegemonic narratives produced by the MMTR-NE women and how they use their histories to advance their autonomy and to express the interruption, denunciation and reparation of the objectification to which the subalternized categories were subjected: the displacement of the inhuman condition of "object" to the dignity of declaring themselves subjects and to demand the recognition as such.