Escrevivência: incursões biográficas e acadêmicas ao feminismo islâmico

Abstract

This essay uses the concept of Escrevivência by Conceição Evaristo in order to align itself with the theoretical production of black and chicanas feminists and outline a possible justification for the theoretical production arising from life experiences and permeated by the different intersectionalities inscribed in the situated bodies of the women. In the text that follows, I make two simultaneous moves: I try to position myself as a Muslim woman and a scholar of Islamic feminism from some biographical passages in order to support the subject of writing while I bring theoretical themes to the discussion of Islamic feminism both because they frame something of the experience of a collective and because they are narratives about decolonial feminisms that are still little known. The essay is divided into 5 parts. In the first, called Introduction, I approach the concept of Escrevivência. In the second part I take the experience of Ramadan to enter the discussion on racialized subjectivities. In the third part I present biographical asides in order to situate the emergence of Islamic feminism from a situated body-politics. In the fourth part, I briefly explore the rhetoric and thought of Muslim feminists, and I end with the Conclusion.