Escutar com o corpo imerso na lama

Cultivando comuns e mariscando ferramentas de cuidado feministas

Abstract

In this article, which intertwines social and environmental struggles, we address three guiding affirmations to shape a popular political-clinic sustained by listening between and with women, as a feminist practice of generating and maintaining commons. These guiding affirmations were gathered through following shellfish collector women in their life territories via an extension-research network that, since 2019, has been weaving together with them, women in academia, and women from other social movements, ways of knowing, fighting, and caring, interweaving them. Following the murmurs of women, mangroves, waters, and lands in Sergipe, we are about to experience the formation of listeners, popular defenders of the body-territory, taking listening as a political-clinical strategy of female and feminist leadership. The term popular here takes on the meaning of letting go of specialization and the safety of the university campus, in order to gain the trust of the ground one walks on, the waters one bathes in, and the companionship between women who share their resistance practices. Women who, weaving a community of (un)learning, listen to each other, reinvent themselves, women.