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This introduction contextualizes Stella do Patrocínio’s life (1941–1992) and her subversive falatório within Brazil’s violent psychiatric-colonial system. It traces her archival recovery and the political stakes of publishing these materials, framing her speech as resistance to institutional erasure and systemic racial, class, and gender oppression.
Keywords: Do Patrocínio, Stella; psychiatric colonialism; falatório; archival recovery; institutional violence; resistance; Brazil; race and racism
Rights: © by the author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Part of Falatório/Chatter Containing:
Translator’s Note / Regina Alfarano
Listening to the Chatter, Silencing Gossip / Mariléa de Almeida
Stella do Patrocínio’s Falatório: Notes on Context and Content / Iracema Dulley, Marlon Miguel
[Audio recorded by Carla Guagliardi]
Caderno/Notebook
Versos, Reversos, Pensamentos e Algo Mais… / Verses, Reverses, Thoughts, and More…
[Video recorded by Carla Guagliardi]
It’s Stella and a Constellation We Should Be Talking About / Carla Guagliardi
Why Read and Listen to Stella do Patrocínio? / Anna Carolina Zacharias
Orality and Listening as an Ethical Practice at the Bispo do Rosário Contemporary Art Museum / Carolina Rodrigues de Lima, Diana Kolker Carneiro da Cunha
[Video of Audio 1]
Title
Stella do Patrocínio’s Falatório
Subtitle
Notes on Context and Content
Author(s)
Iracema Dulley
Marlon Miguel
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-35_01
Description
This introduction contextualizes Stella do Patrocínio’s life (1941–1992) and her subversive falatório within Brazil’s violent psychiatric-colonial system. It traces her archival recovery and the political stakes of publishing these materials, framing her speech as resistance to institutional erasure and systemic racial, class, and gender oppression.
Is Part Of
Falatório/Chatter
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
October 7, 2025
Subject
Do Patrocínio, Stella
psychiatric colonialism
falatório
archival recovery
institutional violence
resistance
Brazil
race and racism
Rights
© by the author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Language
en-GB
page start
1
page end
38
Source
Stella do Patrocínio, Falatório/Chatter, ed. by Iracema Dulley and Marlon Miguel, Cultural Inquiry, 35 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 1–38

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Cite as: Iracema Dulley and Marlon Miguel, ‘Stella do Patrocínio’s Falatório: Notes on Context and Content’, in Stella do Patrocínio, Falatório/Chatter, ed. by Iracema Dulley and Marlon Miguel, Falatório, 35 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 1-38 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-35_01>