É D’Oxum: Affective Memories and escrevivências (writings) of care practices from black yalorixás daughters of Oxum in Afro-Alagoan religions.
Escrevivência, black yalorixás, health care, Afro-Brazilian religions.
The present research aims to open new possibilities of understanding through the proposal of an epistemological rupture. I start from the ancestral religious afrocentric perspective of health care centered on the orixá Oxum as a guide for these practices and policies of survival in the territories ascribed during this production. Filling the lines that weave this knowledge through escrevivência (writings) as the central decolonial methodology capable of describing and expanding the narratives of the women, black yalorixás, who take part in the construction of this path. Thinking and making each line has been a true run (dance) of Oxum. This dance takes place through the lines, affections, hugs, and the diasporic black hands that, in the midst of racist daily life, recognize in ancestry the mirror that empowers, reflecting the self that we are and the sword that fights for freedom, that flows between the stones in the course of the river. Arrive, get affected, arm yourself and watch out!