'For Natasha and her friends, life in the favela also meant freedom. Not freedom from violence or poverty, as those were daily realities for her and other favela dwellers—but freedom to act out queer sexual desires, to express more fluid identities'
that can be traced back to the Greco-Roman empires. The normative definition of liberalism evoked in my book springs from events in European history, such as the Glorious Revolution , the French Revolution , and ideas derived from European “contractualist” philosophy. Contractualism refers to the argument that some sort of social contract—or a set of laws and shared norms—is necessary for achieving human rights and liberty.
In normative liberalism, “society” should be organized to protect core values such as private property and individual autonomy. Formerly a European project,can now be found in most territories around the globe. It has aligned itself with both left and right political currents, and over the centuries, it has contributed to projects such as colonialism and slavery. Nowadays, liberalism finds its highest expression in the United States, where it is a fundamental value of the Constitution.
liberty as an idea has been a privilege of Whiteness in nations such as France and the United States—one that depends fundamentally on theIn practice, normative liberalism in Brazil has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to “rights” , at the expense of minorities . In short, liberalism, for the wealthy, has meant guaranteeing safety from the violence and harms that those in the favelas face daily.
For Natasha and her friends, life in the favela also meant freedom. Not freedom from violence or poverty, as those were daily realities for her and other favela dwellers—but freedom to act out queer sexual desires, to express more fluid identities, to take drugs, to test the limits of their bodies, and to otherwise be themselves.liberalism, opening the way for a more expansive politics of liberation.a picture of Natasha taken in 2010.
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