Militarization as Conviviality: How Women Define and Resist Gendered Everyday Violence and Discipline in Brazil

By Izadora Xavier do Monte This article is a shortened version of the eponymous MECILA Working Paper, which was originally published by the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America in 2025 and can be read here. “Do you think reparation for what they did to us will come from the pens of professors? It is easier – and just as widespread – to kill with a pen as with a gun.” I am downstairs at a newly opened museum space in downtown São Paulo, listening to Débora Mari...