“IN BETWEEN THE CRACKS AND THE INTERTWINED”

GENDER SUBALTERNITY AND INTERSECTIONALITY AT THE FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE (IFRN)

Abstract

As a result of a Master's degree research in the Teaching Area, this research aimed to investigate how the struggle for representation of the women from the state of Rio Grande do Norte (RN) in politics and other spaces of power, as pioneers of female protagonism in Brazil, reverberates in the present. Through an incursion supported by documentary records that touch on trends and dissent on gender (in)equality in RN, was centered on the intersectionality in the spheres of power in Technical and Professional Education (TPE), in particular, within the scope of the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN). Reflections on the composition of the institution's staff, especially on gender and race markers in this context, led us to conclude that the low political representation of women, notably black women, in the IFRN's spaces of power denotes a kind of of female (sub)protagonism in the institution, resonating echoes of past subjugations, reverberated in the forms of gender subalternity still persistent in the present moment of everyday life.