"Incarnate comes from within, from the Viscera"

Interview With Teka Potiguara And Marlúcia Potiguara

Abstract

This interview aims to disseminate the genealogies of self and the embodied thoughts of two Indigenous women, bringing their looks and ways of existence to the political-epistemological discussion of embodied feminisms. For this, we interviewed two female leaders of the Potiguatapuia Movement/Ceará, who are part of different generations, in order to listen to them about their existence and becoming as Indigenous women inside and outside the villages. Thus, Dona Teka Potiguara and Dona Marlúcia Potiguara recovered their childhood trajectories, life in the village, world readings on being born, dying, and caring, transits to the city, studies, and social relations. We also heard them bring into the dialogue the particularities of their intersections with other women's movements, sharing their thoughts about territory, belonging, spirituality, and about how ancestry offers them an embodied genealogy that “comes from within” is “red” and comes from “flesh”. We were four university women and a young Indigenous Tupi/Nheengatu scholar involved in the interview process, so our identification will not appear in the body of the interview.