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A Línguamãe – Oficina de Leitura e Escrita sobre Literatura e Maternidade como espaço de resistência e pensamento das mães na pandemia

2023; University of Porto; Issue: 15 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21747/2182-1097/cem15a6

2182-9748

Cacau Araújo, Gabriela do Amaral,

Psychology and Mental Health

The new social rules established by the covid-19 pandemic have pressed an immense contingent of women to their physical and emotional limits. Línguamãe (mothertonge) is a reading and writing workshop about Literature and Motherhood created by two mothers, writers, and expatriated Brazilian women: one in Portugal, the other one in the USA. Both occupying the same territory of extended isolation (the postpartum followed by the pandemic). Although isolated, women, especially women-mothers, even more women-mothers-writers remained together, speaking the same language, because being a mother is a nationality within itself. Reading and writing about motherhood during this dystopian moment does not save them from the difficulties, but invites them to find in Literature a refuge that helps them pass through the storm, safeguarding, creating connections, and serving as an artistic elaboration tool.