agribusiness and agroecology in the rural landscape. We weave our reflections and conceptualisation through the lens of feminisms in the plural, and in a dialogue between the Marxist and decolonial feminisms of the ‘feminisation of resistance’ concept developed by Sara C. Motta (one of the authors of this piece) ( Motta, 2013 , 2019 , 2020 , 2022 , forthcoming ; Motta and Seppälä, 2016 ); the concept of escrevivência (writing the life, or ‘livature’) developed in the work of Afro-Brazilian theorist Maria da Conceição Evaristo (2020) ; and the writings of the feminist
, 2020 , 245). In the context of Writing Differently, scholars often write to transform words into agency and action ( Lorde, 1984b ) and an intersectional approach can help acknowledge multiple layers of social difference and power. Caroline Rodrigues Silva (2021 , 1) eloquently speaks of ‘Escrevivência’, described in her article abstract as follows: I transpose the act of writing in order to survive (… and breathe). A piece of writing, writing that is laden with love, pain, daily experiences and experiments. “Escrevivência” as writing from the experience of a
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