Efthymia Zymvragaki weaves the story of a perpetrator with her own experiences…
Present Tense, Ep. 03 - Survivors
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Present Tense addresses contemporary Brazilian themes from the experience of two characters and the analysis of a researcher expert in the subject.
Throughout the season, the series addresses topics such as the impact of pesticide use, violence against the LGBTQIA+ population, violence against women, structural racism, precarious work, fake news, the importance of Public Healthcare, and demarcation of indigenous lands, among others.
Citation
Main credits
Mac Niven, Rodrigo (film director)
Rios Corrêa, Clarice (screenwriter)
Oliveira, Juliana (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Rodrigo Mac Niven; editing, Gabriel Medeiros, Felipe Bibian, Renato Martins.
Distributor subjects
Sociology; South America; Latin American Studies; Race + Ethnicity; Afro-LatinKeywords
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My mother used to say:
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\"Look, find a good man and get married.\"
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\"Because a woman without a man is lost.\"
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And we got married and I thought he was
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a supreme prince.
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when i got close
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from that little hill of my house,
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they came to hug me,
I said \"What happened?\".
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Then everyone trying to comfort me,
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but I wasn\'t even understanding why.
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It was first a push,
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then a slap,
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then... aggression really.
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Sometimes I feel like I shouldn\'t go on with life,
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But then I stop and look at the child, right?
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Because he was everything to her.
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If not me, who will take care of him?
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Brazil is the country of Latin America
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with the highest number of femicides.
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The survey shows that, between 2015
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and 2018, 17,000 women were
killed across the country
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I got married very young,
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I got married at 15 to 16 years old.
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Right at the beginning,
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Now I understand, before I didn\'t,
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violence has already begun.
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The little baby was born soon,
my daughter.
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When he arrived
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to see me, see the baby, the first time,
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it was him and my father.
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My father said:
\"How beautiful! How beautiful!
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You are so beautiful,
the baby is beautiful.\"
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He said like this:
\"Jesus, how beautiful?
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The woman is over,
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the little baby has a kneeling face!\".
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The horse was coming, right?
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Because the prince is getting away.
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But I forgave, I thought like this:
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\"Ah, man thing, man is just like that\".
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And I would go to church with his mother,
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with the same clothes,
I even learned to sew.
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She sewed. I really wanted
to be accepted by him.
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I was very much in love.
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But nothing pleased this man.
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He went out, did what he wanted,
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he had the friends he wanted.
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I couldn\'t go to my mother\'s house,
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he said that there was
no environment for me,
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I accepted.
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From these discussions
came the first push.
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He got fed up,
to this day I still think so,
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\"he got fed up\", you see? It\'s
hard to take it off, ok?
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Then I thought like this:
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\"Oh my God, I\'m doing it all wrong.
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I was not a good mother
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I was not a good housewife,
I am not a good wife,
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I\'m nothing, I\'m nobody.\"
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I felt like that, you know?
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Then I... I...
Sorry.
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But is...
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This is the hardest thing for me today...
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wait just a little.
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I...
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I was married to the father of my children
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25 years.
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When I got pregnant with her,
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then he started drinking and came home drunk
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and wanted to break everything
and was hitting me.
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Every time he hit me,
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he said to me:
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\"If you call the police or report it,
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I will set fire to the house
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and I will kill you and the children.\"
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As I kept my mouth shut,
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things only got worse.
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First, I got a push.
Then I got punched.
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Then I took a kick.
Afterwards, I was hit.
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Then I took a poke in the head.
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Then I got hammered.
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Then, one day, I said: \"No. I won\'t
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get beaten up all day.\"
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Then I started to denounce, right?
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He was arrested once, he didn\'t learn.
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Got home, did it again, called again.
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He was arrested again.
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He was arrested 4 to 5 times, you know?
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If we analyze the History of Brazil
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postcolonial,
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We see violence as a mark
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of building that country.
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So, under this urbanized
ground of these cities,
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there is a lot of blood of
black and indigenous women.
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That\'s what femicide is.
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It is the death of women
for reasons of gender.
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So the possession of the
woman as an object,
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a commodified body, the very condition
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of subordination in the system
of powers of our society
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creates the environment in which a woman
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can be discarded
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she can be murdered
she can be humiliated.
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By classifying that homicide as femicide
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for reasons of gender,
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it enters as a qualified homicide.
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Get out of the common crimes roll
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and goes to the roll of heavy
crimes against humanity,
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premeditated,
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and must be understood
and taken care of
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according to its severity.
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My daughter Mainara started to study at night,
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she started working on Make it Easy.
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Then her boss told her that she was too young
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to be working with cleaning, right?
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That she was supposed to continue studying
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that she was going to give her a better chance.
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Then, she went to school, started studying.
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A week later, she met this guy Felipe.
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He treated her very well,
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treated her son very well.
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David!
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But he was very jealous,
like, possessive, right?
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It was going to be three months
since they were together
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and she started, like, feeling sick
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and
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she went for an exam,
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They had been dating for three months.
She found out that she was pregnant.
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Did you miss me?
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Are you going to the hospital?
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I think I will, at night.
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And David?
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-I\'ll bring him back.
-Oh, okay.
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When she had an ultrasound,
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it turned out that she was
already five months pregnant,
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only her period was coming normal.
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Then she said to him:
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\"I\'m already five months pregnant,
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the baby is from...\"
she spoke the father\'s name
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\"It\'s not yours.\" Then he spoke like this:
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\"No, but no one needs to know.
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I take it as my own.\"
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Then she said: \"No, because
I already told the father\".
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That\'s when he started to get...
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kind of weird.
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Then he said that he
would take over the baby.
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The jealousy was dominating his mind
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and he was becoming a psychopath.
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It is very difficult for you
to recognize yourself in a
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conflicting relationship
like this, of violence.
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Because until I get to where I am today,
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It took me 25 years in a relationship.
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I never thought to go there, report it.
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I built a castle of dreams.
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So I thought he would get better.
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There was no Maria da Penha Law.
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With the Maria da Penha Law,
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there was a breakthrough
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in the identification of
what is domestic violence,
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which is the whole relationship thing,
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suffer physical aggression,
emotional aggression,
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psychological, economic.
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And it became popular.
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Because today you have
women from all over Brazil
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who know what the Maria da Penha Law is.
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Before the Maria da Penha Law,
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domestic and family violence against women
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was extremely silent,
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extremely underreported.
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We didn\'t have a legal mechanism
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of protection, of prevention.
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Today a man who commits a
crime of this nature
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can be arrested and charged in the act.
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If it is not a matter of a flagrant situation,
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the victim woman having courage,
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looking for the police station,
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denouncing this author of this violence,
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incident report will be registered
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and a police investigation is initiated
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to ascertain these facts.
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Is this the case you wanted
to pass on to me?
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Yes. This case here is the
third of the same victim...
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of the same suspect,
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of non-compliance with protective measures.
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-Yea.
-The judge has already issued
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- the arrest warrant.
-excellent.
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-We did the survey.
-Then let\'s do the organization
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for us to fulfill this arrest warrant
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as soon as possible.
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Ok.
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In addition, a very important mechanism
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that the Maria da Penha
Law creates, implements
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was the urgent protective measures.
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You request, for example, the removal
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of this author of this violence from home,
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the prohibition of him
approaching the victim,
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the witness, family
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by the distance that the judge determines,
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the prohibition of him having
contact with the victim
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by any means of communication,
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phone, email.
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Today, many times, that threat
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that used to be in person
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today it is often done
through social networks.
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A police officer friend of mine called.
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\"Marcia, is Mainara at home?\"
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Then I said to him:
\"But what do you want with her?\"
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He said, \"because...
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they told me
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that there was a boy assaulting a girl
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with a child on her lap\".
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Then I said, \"No, are you crazy?
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No way!\" Was the guy going
to raise his hand to her?
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A good guy like that, huh?
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According to mine... right?
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When he hung up, someone called me.
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Then the person said:
\"For the love of God,
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come home now,
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because a very terrible
thing has happened here\".
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So I left there and came running.
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Then I looked around the corner
and I saw her slipper.
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Like, she tried to run, right?
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Then she lost her slipper,
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the bag she had on her
back, from the baby.
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Then I couldn\'t even look, no.
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Then I turned around, I didn\'t
want to look, right?
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Because I was... Taking 12 stab wounds...
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and lying in the middle of the street...
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And the boy screaming.
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\"Chip killed Mom!
Chip killed Mom!
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And my mother was screaming at me.\"
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I met a companion.
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Today I recognize her as a companion, right?
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She invited me to be in a conversation circle.
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I didn\'t know that existed.
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I saw women talking
about everything I felt
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and I didn\'t know
how to express myself.
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It felt like I was seeing
myself in the other woman.
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I started going to councils,
participating in councils,
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to talk about public
policy, application.
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Then I came to understand that there
were within these public policies
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people who worked on
this control of violence,
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who worked on prevention,
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that there was a prevention
and protection network.
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And I saw those women speaking
with such propriety.
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The women introduced themselves
like this: \"I am Joana,
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I\'m a civil servant, a law student\",
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they\'re all doctors, right? These women.
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So these doctors talking
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about public policy.
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I said: \"I\'ll keep coming
here, I want to learn\".
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I usually say like this,
that the experience
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teaches you a lot.
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It may not even validate,
but it teaches you a lot.
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I\'m so focused on studying
what really moves me,
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which is the struggle,
the militancy with women.
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I work in this sense that housewives
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who are indoors today, who could not,
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did not want to study,
they are suffering violence.
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I think...
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she must have suffered
some kind of violence
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and not having had the courage to
speak up, do you understand?
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In the end, her latest posts
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it seemed like she knew something
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was going to happen to her.
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Maybe, she stayed with him
because she was afraid,
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he threatened her, right?
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Want to play dominoes?
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Where? On the floor?
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I have four grandchildren,
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but David is different.
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Because of everything
he\'s been through, right?
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He saw his mother murdered,
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he asked him not to do
that to his mother.
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That\'s why I have to move on
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somehow.
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He\'s the one who makes me get
up every morning at 6 am,
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to tidy him up, take him to school,
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he goes talking to me.
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Then it\'s 10:30 am, I\'ll go get him
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and he comes back talking to me.
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Question: \"Have you made lunch yet?\"
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If I have a problem:
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\"Why are you sad?\"
It\'s my mate.
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He watches everything I watch,
everything I watch he likes.
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Everything he likes, I like.
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We share everything.
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Is the only one...
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It\'s what gives me more
incentive to be able to live
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and to move on.
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Where did you find mango?
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I removed it from there.
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Did you pull it off?
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hum.
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Oh ok.
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-Grandma?
-Yes?
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-Can you peel it for me?
-I peel it later.
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Not necessarily the woman will die
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at the end of domestic violence.
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There are many types of violence
that this woman suffers.
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Psychological torture, blackmail,
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sometimes it\'s a depression.
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There are many cases of suicide.
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It ends up generating mental disorders, compulsions,
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obesity.
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Intersectionality shows that a person
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is multiple,
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she is not just a woman.
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She is also a woman who has a race-color,
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who has a social class.
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So you suffer racial violence,
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multiplied by sexist violence,
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multiplied by capitalist violence.
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Most women in Brazil are poor and black.
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All hot.
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Save the domino.
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Brazil has a very interesting record,
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very important, right?
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Which is the compulsory notification form,
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of sexual and domestic violence
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against women and children.
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campaigns are needed
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in the health area for this type
of notification to be implemented
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in all health units
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and that you have a referral for this woman.
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Good evening! Good evening!
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We are the Bertha Lutz women\'s movement
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and our theme is \"Cycles of Violence\".
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We are here today willing to share,
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from the soul
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and i would like you all
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to introduce yourselves
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My name is Vania Venancio,
I am the creator of the movement
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Bertha Lutz of Women of the Holy Spirit.
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My name is Claudia.
Good afternoon.
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My name is Lucimara.
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I was honored by the
invitation that Vania made
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for me to participate in
the Bertha Lutz movement.
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Being a woman is not easy.
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Being a black woman is much worse.
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And being a black woman of African origin,
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the prejudice is even greater.
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My mother was against my separation,
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she said that, whether beaten
or not, I had to live married.
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It was her creation, right?
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For 17 years. I was called fat
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ugly...
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In the middle of the street,
he cursed at me:
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\"Bastard\", for everyone to hear.
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Since I was 13 years old,
I have suffered violence
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I did not know.
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I was beaten every day
without knowing why.
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Run to where?
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Starving on the street with the kids?
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I was dependent on him
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and I didn\'t go back to my
parents\' house in shame.
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And then I came to live on the street.
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One day, I said: \"Oh my God, I need help\".
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\"I can\'t stand to be hungry anymore.\"
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I live in a house of four macho men,
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and I have to survive.
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My son attacked her,
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the two youths, long married.
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I need my son to no longer be a bully.
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How many times is the woman taken
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to believe that she is to blame
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for the violence suffered?
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I think every woman has to seek
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knowledge within social movements.
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That\'s where we know what our rights are,
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our knowledge.
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-Hey, how are you?
-Hey, Marcia!
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-How long, huh?
-Yeah.
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Hi, my beautiful. How are you?
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-Good.
-How are you?
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-Keeping up, huh?
-Hey, Marcia. How are you?
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Not bad. You can come here, people.
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I\'m going to sit here.
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Yeah, it\'s hot, right?
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Yes
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-So, why did you disappear?
-How are things?
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-Keeping up, huh?
-Yes?
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How have you been since the episode?
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How are you...?
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We\'re trying to take it, get
back up, but it\'s hard, right?
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Sure.
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I have a lot of problem
with my grandson, right?
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-Yes.
-Her son.
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Because of the event, because he
watched everything, right?
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-Yes.
-But...
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The only problem in our town
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is that I can\'t get a psychologist for him.
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Sometimes I isolate myself a lot, you know?
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This is not good.
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In this moment of fragility,
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It\'s always good to be around, right?
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Yes.
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I was thinking I was getting into
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a depression. In fact, nothing is good for me.
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And certain events are still happening,
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that weakens you even more.
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There are times when you think:
\"Oh, I\'ll give up,
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I don\'t even want to live anymore\".
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There are days when I even turn around and say:
\"I don\'t even want to live anymore.
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Why live, if life isn\'t even worth living?\"
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We are women, we understand the pain of a loss,
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we understand the pain of a mother,
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and within the conversation we go
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guiding the needs of this family
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and making the necessary referrals there.
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It is very important for the woman, at this moment,
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not feel alone.
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Because
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This will trigger you, within that period,
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a future depression
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-health problems.
- Deep down, I think I even am,
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- but we never accept, right?
-Yea.
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It is true.
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We say: \"No\", others say:
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\"You have to look for...\",
\"No, girl, I\'m not, no.
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I\'m just sad today, but it will pass.\"
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But then the days go by, more days,
the sadness just goes...
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-Only increasing.
-...just accumulating.
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most women
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get inside a movement today
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because they bring their pains.
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When you see you\'re being a
reference to someone else
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of overcoming, you feel a very big change.
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This is ongoing work,
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It\'s a job that we,
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-Diary, right?
-Diary, of an ant,
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but we can.
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The difficult thing is to start this work.
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But when we start, we don\'t want to stop.
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Lots of data we\'re looking for
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shows that the more women representing
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we women, the more public
policies we will have
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in our favor.
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And we have to break this space of society,
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as Rosilda said,
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it is mandatory for a woman to marry,
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procreate and obey her husband.
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To what extent are we going
to live this in society?
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The Bertha Lutz group comes with this intention.
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Strengthen, unite
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and to give voice to us women
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to always be protagonists of our stories.
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Guys, we\'ll make it.
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Gotta put her on the list there...
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Without the struggle of women,
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there wouldn\'t even be a Maria da Penha Law,
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nor a Convention of Belém do Pará,
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nor a citizenship for the woman.
It wouldn\'t exist.
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Organize things, people.
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The state is obligated to enter this woman\'s house
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through public policies of empowerment.
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This is not just an activity for activists.
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The government must have political responsibility
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and social with all these women,
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informing, creating campaigns,
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reporting channels.
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are also necessary
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support groups for the male aggressor.
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Take care in the aspect
of reformulating that being,
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deconstructing machismo
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and giving that person the
opportunity to improve as well.
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Talking about domestic
violence moves me a lot,
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because I\'m a survivor.
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I thank a warrior,
who was my mother,
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who went through all this too,
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put the man out,
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kicked my dad out of the house.
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When she told me her daughter
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was not created for man to beat,
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was not created for man to mistreat,
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was not created for man to kill,
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I said: \"Mom, I will survive,
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I will not die\".
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bred to love
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bred to take care
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Created for men not to kill
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Eh!
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that\'s us women
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that\'s us women
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that\'s us women
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Eh!
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that\'s us women
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that\'s us women
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that\'s us women
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I am proud to say
that I am a housewife,
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but that I proposed to do a job
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that gives me pleasure.
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And a job that is to share
the struggle with other women,
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show how hard it is to get out of this cycle,
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but that there are ways.
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I would say to the women who pass by
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the situation I went through
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not to stop moving forward,
understand?
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Because there is law, right?
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When I come to the beach,
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I feel a tranquility, a peace,
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because it\'s therapeutic, right?
You hear that noise,
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you sunbathe, which is very nice too.
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And you feel alive,
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that\'s what we women need,
to feel alive.
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Every 4 minutes a woman records to be assaulted.
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66% of the violence victims in 2018 were black.
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At least 3 women are feminicide victims every day.
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 26 minutes
Date: 2020
Genre: Expository
Language: Portuguese
Grade: High School, College, Adults
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