Costurando “memórias rasgadas”: histórias dos manicômios de Sorocaba sob a lente da interseccionalidade

Abstract

This paper seeks to reconstruct and analyze emblematic memories about asylums in the county of Sorocaba-SP, through the testimony of women who worked there. It sought to investigate the markers of gender, race / ethnicity and social class in the recalled stories, complementing research that reported human rights violations in these institutions. The reports of singular experiences were marked by social contradictions and power relations that are constitutive of asylums, including the social function of segregation of the so-called “abject bodies”, the reproduction of modern colonial-patriarchal-racist capitalism and the offer of an impossible “treatment”, since one of the acts of violence was precisely the failure to recognize humanity from segregated lives. The analysis seeks to contribute to the continuation of the process of purging the traumatic social wound represented by asylums, so that we can get closer, as a society, to the accountability and repair of the historic debt that Sorocaba-SP has with the survivors of these spaces.