Book Presentation: Stella do Patrocínio's "Falatório/Chatter"
Join us for the presentation of Stella do Patrocínio's "Falatório/Chatter", edited by Iracema Dulley and Marlon Miguel!
Marlon will be joined by Anna Carolina Zacharias, Carolina Rodrigues, Diana Kolker, Natasha Felix, Sara Ramos, and Sofia Sk for a roundtable discussion on Stella do Patrocínio's life and work.
The event will take 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.