Escrevivências of the care practices of black yalorixás, daughters of
Oxum, in Maceió
Alagoas; writing; afrocentric knowledge; health; black yalorixás
The present research aims to expand the understanding of Afro-
Brazilian religions in Alagoas through the practice of epistemologi-
cal disobedience. The narrative assumes an Afrocentric, religious
and ancestral perspective of care that goes beyond health based
on the centralization of the orixá Oxum as a guide for survival poli-
cies in the territories ascribed during this production. I fill in the li-
nes that weave ancestral knowledge through writing as a decolo-
nial methodology capable of describing and expanding the narrati-
ves of black yalorixás who protagonize care practices in the terrei-
ros of African origin in Maceió (AL). Thinking and making each line
is a true run of Oxum through the lines, affections, hugs and dias-
poric black hands that, in the midst of racist daily life, recognize in
ancestry the mirror that empowers reflecting the self that we are, in
the sword that fights for freedom and in the water that flows
between the stones found in the course of the river. Arrive, get af-
fected, arm yourself and watch out!