Gender issue: women and LGBTs in the countryside, actions to face COVID-19. (Estudos agrarios criticos e COVID-19: movimentos socioterritoriais e luta pela terra no Brasil.)

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to identify how rural women and LGBTs, in their diversity, carried out actions to confront COVID-19, having as main foundations popular peasant feminism and gender relations, reinventing their forms of struggle. The methodological procedures are based on militant research, which guides towards a transformative action. Among the main results and reflections, the debates start from the conception of a capitalist, patriarchal, racist, xenophobic and LGBT-phobic society. The actions of struggle and resistance were carried out in solidarity campaigns, denouncements of the denialist and genocidal actions of the Federal Government, the fight for PLs 735/2020 and 823/2021, national and international conferences, defense of the Unified Health System (SUS), tree planting, and reorganizing and reinventing the use of social networks to stay connected.