ART AND ITS TEACHING: ARE THEY PATHS FOR EVERYONE?

Who, in a patriarchal society, steps on eggs? And who is respected in the art world? We live in a patriarchal society, consequently excluding, in which cis, trans, black and/or white women, from various social and economic classes are invisibilized. Without disregarding the degrees of erasure, but emphasizing that hegemonic narratives dictate the norms, it is clear that they are produced by and propagated around the white, cis, and almost always Western man. "The man from whom the rib was taken to make the woman", dependent, a part of him, he the owner. It is a founding myth that "authorizes" the man to believe in his superiority over the woman, and he becomes her "owner".  It is an origin myth that is repeated, in a Judeo-Christian society, in children's books, in oral narratives, in family behavior between fathers/mothers and sons, in schools, among many other situations; the established norm is that "the man commands and the woman obeys", with the woman always in second place in all social spaces. This does not mean that privileges do not exist, and because of them, fights sometimes flare up. But for those who want a more egalitarian world and who accept the contradictions inherent to the human being, it is necessary to build a society where all schools teach art, where art is the basis of human formation. Let us all be feminists, agreeing with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and learning to cultivate an antiracist, decolonial, and horizontal feminist thought. In effect, we will be walking the paths to build another proposal for a less exclusionary world, a world in which those who produce knowledge and art are no longer valued by the color of their skin or by their gender. That capitalism be questioned and that being has more value than having: this other way of existing is still possible. We hope that in this issue of Apotheke Magazine we have articles that break the barriers of dichotomies, of racisms; that they are centered on self-reflection, on interpersonal collaboration and between knowledges, incorporating in their approaches the criticism against racism, heterosexism and androcentrism; that attempt to emphasize women's empowerment and that are aware of prejudice in relation to gender, race, age, ability, sexuality, class, ethnicity, and other human diversities and dissidences; proposing for a social and worldview change.

Organização: Profa Dra Ana Mae Barbosa (USP/UAM)

Profa Dra Vitória Negreiros do Amaral (PPGAV-UFPE/UFPB

Editores: Profa Dra Jociele Lampert e Prof Dr Fábio Wosniak