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COVID-19 data in Brazil is systematized and disseminated through this site maintained by the Ministry of Health: https://covid.saude.gov.br/. The death toll would have likely been much higher had it not been for the heroic efforts of community organizations and networks that provided vital supplies and care to those in need (see Lima 2023; Olivar et al., 2022).
Throughout the article the plural refers to the student writers.
Literally “big-houses,” casa-grandes refers to the slaveholders’ plantation mansions.
“Pindorâmico” derives from the word used by the Tupi peoples to refer to land. The term is used by decolonial and contra-colonial thinkers in place of the word “Indigenous,” which was used by colonizers to refer to these, and all Indigenous, groups in Brazil.
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This paper, which was originally written in Portuguese, reflects on written contributions to the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP). PJP was founded in May 2020 by Sarah S. Willen and Katherine A. Mason as a joint initiative of the University of Connecticut and Brown University. PJP is supported by multiple sponsors at the University of Connecticut and Brown University, including each university's Office of the Vice President for Research as well as UConn's Global Affairs, Human Rights Institute, and Humanities Institute and Brown's Population Studies and Training Center. More information about the Pandemic Journaling Project can be found at https://pandemic-journaling-project.chip.uconn.edu/. The writers would also like to specifically thank Heather Wurtz, from PJP, for her invaluable support throughout the writing process and Deborah Cherman of Brown University for her assistance translating and revising the article from the original Portuguese.
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da Silva, R.V., Alves, C.E.A., Montenario, M.R. et al. Writing to Create, Mend, and Rebel: Three Reflections on Journaling as Escrevivência for Afro-Brazilian Public University Students During COVID-19. Cult Med Psychiatry 48, 123–132 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-024-09849-5
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