Foz
Rede Transfeminista de Cuidados Digitais (Transfeminist Network of Digital Care)
BRAZIL
About Foz
Journalist, video documentarian and Traditional Chinese Medicine therapist. She has been working for more than two decades in activism, facilitation of learning processes, digital care, organisation of horizontal collectives and human re-enchantment through nature, technologies (ancestral and digital), collective care and Buen Vivir.
In the first few years that I dedicated to activism, I began to reflect on unsustainable practices and contradictions within this activism that preaches changes in the world that are not put into practice or enough energy to change within our own groups.
I’ve seen a number of people who unfortunately left (or were left behind) along the way in favour of achieving goals, and the lack of reflection on processes, on how we feel and are, and on our own rhythms and well-being, that has always bothered me, but without resources I went on like this for many years, until I myself went into burnout, which, amazingly, I didn’t know at the time. But the stress of a long judicial process, an environment of dispute, protagonism, machismo, productivism and financial precariousness opened up an existential hole, I didn’t have the will or the energy to even open an email and this time I was the one who fell by the wayside, I moved away from activism, and I had sensations in my body that I had never experienced before…
I went to study Chinese medicine, as it was the resource I found at the time to deal with the emptiness. And I had time to reflect and think about how to change the world from the small, from the tangible, from what was at my fingertips, in other words from the inside out, starting with myself, my relationships, from my own collective, starting from the small. Along this path, as well as TCM, I came across Vipassana (a 10-day meditation process in silence), which helped me to understand what I was feeling, helped me to see my shadows along the way, to recognise what I feel in my body and to respond more assertively to what is going on around me.
I came back because a revolutionary soul doesn’t just settle for internal change, I found other partnerships that value feeling, care, diversity, mistakes and shadows, and so I began to immerse myself in this other way of doing things, based on care, emotions, relationships and, finally, affection.
About Rede Transfeminista de Cuidados Digitais
The Transfeminist Digital Care Network (RTCD) began in 2018 and aims to strengthen the active participation of trans people and cis women in the technopolitical debate and in the decision-making and development spaces of technologies from the perspective of digital care. RTCD works to build learning processes in digital care, to build transfeminist narratives in the field of technology, and to support and promote the field of digital care in Brazil.
The Network is made up of cis and trans activists and organisations working in the field of technology and gender. They are: Coding Rights, MariaLab, Blogueiras Negras, InterSecLab, Vedetas and Clandestina. The network is governed horizontally, with decisions being made collectively and with the active participation of trans people.
Foz & RTCD can provide:
I offer my transfeminist solidarity and support, conversations, articulations and listening, I can facilitate learning processes, build methodologies and materials at the intersections of technology and gender, holistic safety for activists, collective care, and self-care. I also love ancestral technologies, storytelling, nature to inspire and co-create new narratives, traditional agri-food systems, permaculture, fungus and fermentation.
My organisation can support LGBTQIAPN+ and women’s activists and organisations with digital care, from awareness-raising workshops to building digital security policies.
[how to contact you in case someone wants to hire you or RTCD?]
foz@riseup.net