The muzealization of archeology from a putafeminism perspective: sex workers' materialities and narratives in an exhibition in the city of Pelotas (RS)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze a musealization of an archeology that involves sex workers, encompassing their materialities and narratives in museums in order to consider their contemporary demands. From this perspective, we demand an archaeological work engaged with the political activism of putafeminism, a movement of sex workers, which aims to fight against the stigma surrounding the profession and to guarantee labor rights. Museums are spaces that traditionally favor a hegemonic white, elitist, androcentric and cis-heteronormative narratives, which ends up suppressing the stories of sex workers. In this sense, we will present the experience of preparing the module "The struggle of workers for the right to inhabit the city of Pelotas", an exhibition that was part of the celebrations of Heritage Day in Pelotas (RS) in 2019.