ABSTRACT

In order to analyse the potential of a more transformative gender justice, we looked at more informal cultural interventions. Thus, we examined how some filmmakers in Brazil were dealing with human rights violations committed against women during the dictatorship in their work, and we sought to gauge if those initiatives could contribute to transformative gender justice. Focusing on the particular scenario of transitional justice, our research aims to examine initiatives that offer symbolic reparations to women who suffered human rights violations during the military dictatorship. Within the Brazilian transition, many of the symbolic reparations fall under the responsibility of the Amnesty Commission, including ‘Amnesty Caravans’. The Amnesty Commission also facilitated the so-called Stamps of Memory project, which was created in 2008 to capture and archive the memory of victims through the construction of a collection of oral and audiovisual resources.