Social movement of prostitutes in Brazil and the fight against Whorephobia

for a battle and decolonial pedagogy

Abstract

The article intends to reveal scenes and images about the ways in which sexual workers, in battle, weave and build their own pedagogy, here called pedagogy of battle. This battle pedagogy carries with it elements of what we have called decoloniality. I propose a discussion about decoloniality based on the narratives and experiences of sex workers and the Social Movement of Sex Workers in Brazil. This is an empirical, exploratory study carried out between the years 2017-2021. The theoretical framework is limited to the field of studies in education and dialogues with theoretical frameworks from Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology. The researched group is composed of low-income women, in prostitution, prevailing age from 35 years old, in addition to a broader group of people that consists of the group that makes up the family members and support network and child care and socialization and education of sons and daughters. The narratives of the Sex Workers point out in the problematization and discussion of this article that the Sex Workers Movement has been configured as an important locus of transformation of society and visibility of subaltern subjects that historically were silenced. These bodies point to the construction of a battle and decolonial pedagogy where the knowledge woven in the street claims, resists and emancipates.