WRITINGS TO RESIST

the forests and the female dancing bodies

Abstract

This article proposes to update the concept of forest bodies, presented in 2019 in the thesis “Forest bodies: experiences to resist”. The proposal is to migrate their flexion in gender and number to assume themselves as female bodies of the forest. This movement was born during the doctorate, but it became frayed in an everyday pandemic. From my work as a northern artist, woman, mother, teacher and artivist, I set up the space for the experiences that guide the writing of this article, seeking a dialogue with Ailton Krenak, Helena Katz, Christine Greiner and Boaventura de Souza Santos. It is noteworthy that, as an empirical corpus, I define myself as a collective of dancing bodies, whose survival is only possible because I understand that there is a volubility that sustains the paths taken to destabilize hegemonic grounds of the social, cultural, economic and political. The body-media theory defines the adopted methodology, perceiving the body in its dancing, in an action that is always transitional from bodies and your female.