Practices of the common and women's body-territory at the Casa de Referência Mulheres Mirabal

Abstract

The study deals with the urban occupation built by the Olga Benario Women's Movement, the Mirabal Women's Reference House (CRMM), which since 2016 has functioned as a reception and shelter space for women victims of violence, and its work in the city of Porto Alegre/Brazil. Through the urban and social experiences of the women who are or have been linked to the House, we will emphasize the practices of the common, associated above all with an ethic and exercise of a political nature that is configured in struggles and ways of life that daily start from cooperation, shared care, the collective and social use of property and the demand for another type of society. To this end, we will present the women's narratives about two practices to combat hunger carried out together with other social movements: the Diaristas Support Campaign and the construction of the community vegetable garden, a moment when the body-territory materializes in collectivity and no longer accepts a situation of misery and violence.