Otelo is a central figure of my adolescent initial political activism. He and others were the labourers of the military coup that overturned the fascist regimen and installed a political democracy.
After the military coup, people took political decisions in their own hands and I could participate in a revolutionary process. I was an interested and attentive learner of the revolution; didn't understand everything, but there is one thing I understood: Otelo wanted and worked for people to have the power.
Otelo was very friendly, joyful and full of energy. I remember him in public meetings, in rallies, on tv.
This video was made in the Master "Education, Gender, Body and Violence" (Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education of the University of Porto, during the semester February - May 2021. The group of students took the article by Donna Haraway (1992) Ecce Homo and elaborated some of the ideas in the text and present them in a collective work that can be seen in the video.
The reflection proposed by Donna Haraway was worked by all the students and re-appropriated for our feminist thoughts and actions.
It was both fun and rewarding to produce a collective work. We could extend our analysis to the fact that human figuration still is based on a man, as a suffering servant and savior. How can we imagine other ways of representing humanity outside this picture? A representation that can be inclusive, i.e., not excluding others, eccentric, from the margins, silenced, marginalized and ignored?
A way to get throw to an imaginable new human figuration is to proceed as Donna Haraway suggest - to think what could be this figuration / representation if we took another Figure to build another picture.
Reference:
Haraway, Donna (1992) Ecce Homo, Ain't (Ar'n't) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others: The Human in a Post-Humanist Landscape, in Butler & Scott (1992) Feminists Theorize the Political, New York: Routledge.
