OCCUPATION OF WOMEN TINA MARTINS AND THE PRODUCTION OF URBAN SPACE IN BELO HORIZONTE - MG: reflections on a transforming urban praxis
Gender violence - Feminism - Urban occupation - Tina Martins Women's Reference House - Right to the City
This research focuses on the Tina Martins Reference House in Belo Horizonte, which acts as a collective space for welcoming and sheltering women in situations of violence and which originated and was consolidated from an urban occupation carried out by the national social movement of women Olga Benário. Such women, who were already articulated in other social movements of urban struggle for housing and for a decent life, saw the need to build their own women's movement, in the search to conquer the specific demands presented at that moment by the working women present in the militancy spaces and occupation for housing, and that represent demands of many. The realization of the insufficiencies of policies to combat violence against women mobilized them to seek both to tension the structures of the State and to claim rights within the structure itself, and, in addition, to carry out, themselves, actions that would effectively change lives. of women, from the creation of the Reference House, where women take care of women. In search, therefore, of what is needed to destructure gender hierarchies, the patriarchal-capitalist and racist logic that make up the origins of the violence to which women are subjected, as well as what it takes for a woman who has been raped to protect her and transform your life, the struggle for space is necessary. In the meantime, there is a struggle for women's lives, for a dignified life, for the transformation of everyday life and for women's right to the city. In this sense, through bibliographic reviews, participant observation, and the compilation of information obtained in semi-structured interviews, we seek to visualize and analyze the experiences of the Casa de Referência da Mulher Tina Martins and, from that, reflect on the imbrications between the struggle for the Right to the City and the intersectional feminist struggle, in the way of building an urban praxis of daily transformation of the structures of social oppression linked to gender, race and class.