Abstract
In the present article, I reflect on the ambivalences and accommodations described by Ruth in her daily life in Vila Gaúcha, in Porto Alegre. The reflections are based on a journey through family photographs that intertwine narratives about home, motherhood, violence, life, and death. My thoughts are presented in dialogue with the writings of Carolina de Jesus (2007) and Conceição Evaristo (2016, 2018), following the path suggested by Han and Das (2016) of looking at life forms as a language for the fabrication of world. I seek to describe the tactics of mediation and elaboration of ways of inhabiting the world and of producing the home between events modeled by historical questions transversed by race and gender - in this case, the production of the city and the dynamics imposed by the interaction between fixation and circulation in the making of removable bodies and places.
Keywords:
Photography; City; Porto Alegre; Gender; Home