From the perspective of the Western capitalist world, the pandemic of the new coronavirus has opened up and enhanced the inequalities of this model of society. In the Brazilian context, at a time of political and economic chaos, social disparities and a segregationist logic of urban space are worsening, at a time when utopian longings are transformed into dystopian realities. Looking mostly at women’s writings and observing the current situation, we discuss cities from the perspective of the female body, which has historically been imprisoned and relegated to private space. We note that the relationship between such imprisonment and land privatization is still reflected in cities today and in the appropriation of these by us women. When intersecting gender and racial issues, we note that black women end up being the most affected by the current social structure, since they occupy the majority of spaces for exploration and subjugation. In this sense, we question how we can appropriate urban spaces, if we are still struggling to appropriate our own bodies.
