Women, race, and violence: experience report of a pedagogical action at José Leitão State School, Santa Luz, Bahia

Abstract

This work presents reflections on the pedagogical action entitled “race, gender and violence: the danger of being a woman and black in Brazil,” carried out in the form of a student symposium, led by students in their final year of high school, at Colégio Estadual José Leitão, located in the city of Santa Luz/BA, which aimed to analyze the power of structural racism and gender inequalities that colonize Brazilian society, perpetuating discrimination, gender asymmetries, and various forms of violence against women and girls, notably black, in addition to promoting students protagonism in defense of human rights principles and the strengthening of peace. Methodologically, this is a study in the format of an academic-scientific essay which found that, in everyday school life, ensuring the implementation of an education that denaturalizes the domination of sexism and oppression resulting from gender and racial inequalities is still restricted or limited to the area of Human Sciences and its Technologies. To this end, feminist pedagogy and countercolonial epistemology were used as a basis for the theoretical foundation of the aforementioned pedagogical practice.