Agradecimentos: I’d like to thank Millie Thayer and Tambe Ashwini for the previous reading of an earlier version of this text, and for the organisation of the Panel: Whither Transnational Feminism? in the Conference 13th WWC/Fazendo Genero 11, Florianopolis, 2017 where it was first discussed. I also thank the anonymous reviewers of this text for their insightful commentaries, Laura Murray for her generous suggestions and Janice Rodrigues Bicudo de Faria for her emotional support. This work was funded by successive CNPq/Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico grants Ver menos

Abstract: In this article, I discuss how love and anger have affected the political struggles of putafeministas/whore-feminists in Brazil. Love, considered to be at the centre of diverse social justice and, particularly, feminist projects, is a relevant assertion of decolonial feminism, a line of thought that has vastly disseminated during the last years in the country. In an ominous political context, marked by growing conservatism and the destablisation of rights that had been previously guaranteed, feminisms' expansion has led to the incorporation of an array of heterogeneous ideas. Putafeministas political struggles have taken place in a milieu in which the multiplicity of histories, needs and strategies of different categories of women seemed to be recognised and celebrated. Yet, far from being acknowledged by lines of decolonial thinking, putafeministas have faced a growing spiral of violence and anger from other Brazilian feminists. I explore this process, basing myself on ethnographic studies conducted since 2010 about relations between feminisms and prostitution in Brazil. My main point is that these confrontations are related to the incorporation of transnational flows of feminist ideas regarding 'rape culture' that associating sex work with paid rape encompass decolonial possibilities Ver menos