Dialogues in isolation: observation of the experiences of women with disabilities on Instagram during the pandemic

Abstract

In 2020, the main challenge for the world was to adapt to a structural change in daily relations, including new habits with the use of masks, health security protocols and social isolation as measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. Starting from the understanding that crisis situations, on a global scale, can influence the worsening of social, political and economic inequalities of the subjects, we see that, in Brazil, the lack of reliable information about the coronavirus and the absence of public policies that aim to guarantee the population’s access to health contributes strongly to increase the risk of contamination and, consequently, the number of deaths by Covid-19. Given this context, we set out to follow the participation of the Feminist Collective Helen Keller in the campaign #CompartilheInformação #CompartilheSaúde carried out on Instagram by the NGO Artigo 19, to observe their support networks and dialogues held in virtual meetings through lives, webinars with themes related to health, self-care and violence against women with disabilities. In this exercise, it was possible to see how the dynamics of mobility and immobility, which alternate in real and digital environments, conformed to create new spaces for dialogues and interactions in these contexts.