This article proposes aging black women’s geographies as a critical forum to rethink human-spatial relationships in Brazil. It ethnographically explores aging black women’s life narratives recounted while walking through their neighborhood in the city of Belo Horizonte. Their accounts of their lives in the neighborhood speak to racial, gender, and class positioning in Brazil and how these positions manifest in spatial configurations. However, their stories also reimagine the relationship between individuals, communities, and space offer counter-narratives to traditional concepts of geographic hierarchy, domination, and separation, suggested in ideas such as the ‘favela’. The analysis shows how aging black women’s geographies model possibilities for re-envisioning liberatory practices and environments.
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