Storytelling from here

for a feminist and amefrican classroom

Abstract

As Scholastique Mukasonga writes in his book “The barefoot woman”, we need to teach our toes a walk that does not hurt them along the way. Inspired by this proposition, this work seeks to dialogue with the teachings of intellectuals such as bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa and Lélia Gonzalez to think of a classroom and teaching guided by a feminist and anti-racist ethic. Thus, from the Amefrican continent, we aim, based on our experiences and a cartographic inspiration, to discuss the relationships between being a teacher-researcher-feminist to produce a university that welcomes, cares and allows more stories to be told. For this, we use our own stories that narrate how we build a voice for ourselves, how we experience the university and what paths we have taken in the exercise of teaching and research in a feminist and anti-racist perspective. Finally, as a possibility of intervention for teaching based on a care policy, we narrate an experience in the classroom, which has been going on for at least a year, where students are invited to write letters to a discipline. Our bet is that we can continue to build the classroom space as a healing space, where our bodies are in favor of policies to enchant life.