Book Presentation: Stella do Patrocínio's "Falatório/Chatter"

On the occasion of presenting Stella do Patrocínio's "Falatório/Chatter", edited by Iracema Dulley and Marlon Miguel, a roundtable discussion with Anna Carolina Zacharias, Carolina Rodrigues, Diana Kolker, Natasha Felix, Sara Ramos, Sofia Sk, and Marlon Miguel explored Stella do Patrocínio's life and work.
The event took place on Monday, 30 March 2026, 16:30 at Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

About the book:

Falatório/Chatter delves into the life and work of Stella do Patrocínio (1941–1992), who was confined in Rio de Janeiro’s Colônia Juliano Moreira psychiatric asylum from the age of twenty-one until her death. The unique form of relentless speech that Do Patrocínio produced while institutionalized was dismissed by doctors as mere ‘logorrhoea’. Yet her falatório is far more: a defiant and poetic act that resists erasure by psychiatry, racism, and patriarchy. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, this book presents transcriptions of Do Patrocínio’s chatter in Portuguese and English, amplifying her voice as a testament to survival, power, and resistance.

The book was published by ICI Berlin Press and is open access, physical copies are available here.