Feminist disobedience

Writing research with poetry and letters

Abstract

Inspired by the verb disobey, discussed by Debora Diniz and Ivone Gebara (2022), as well as by the idea practices of freedom, we relate feminist disobedience to the proposal to break the hegemonic models of academic writing. We associate this movement with the presentation of our research, with discussions on gender and sexuality. For that, we think about and propose other ways of producing a deterritorialized writing in the university, from discussions of ongoing investigations in a research group, which include writing exercises with poetry, in narratives of cultural productions from the periphery and with the elaboration of letters. The dialogues with writing consider the following fields: cultural production of a feminist network, who articulated music and poetry collectives, problematizing the care of transgender and transvestite children and adolescents in shelter services (as a protective measure); LGBTI+ experience in facing LGBTI+phobia at school and teacher training.