A mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where
residents articulate their own politics of freedom against the
backdrop of multiple forms of oppression. Normative liberalism has
promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to
rights-usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois-at the
expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children,
LGBTQ people, and slum dwellers. In this visceral ethnography of
Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Moises Lino
e Silva explores what happens when liberalism is challenged by
people whose lives are impaired by normative understandings of
liberty. He calls such marginalized visions of freedom
"minoritarian liberalism," a concept that stands in for
overlapping, alternative modes of freedom-be they queer, favela, or
peasant. Lino e Silva introduces readers to a broad collective of
favela residents, most intimately accompanying Natasha Kellem, a
charismatic self-declared travesti (a term used in Latin America to
indicate a specific form of female gender construction opposite to
the sex assigned at birth). While many of those the author meets
consider themselves "queer," others are treated as "abnormal"
simply because they live in favelas. Through these interconnected
experiences, Lino e Silva not only pushes at the boundaries of
anthropological inquiry, but also offers ethnographic evidence of
non-normative routes to freedom for those seeking liberties against
the backdrop of capitalist exploitation, transphobia, racism, and
other patterns of domination.
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