TECENDO REDES

RELATO DE EXPERIÊNCIA SOBRE O PROJETO MARIA JIQUITAIA

Abstract

This report aims to describe the experience of the Maria Jiquitaia extension project from an ethnographic perspective of the multidisciplinary team. The team revisits the community and the health unit where the project was born and grew, using interdisciplinary participatory methods to construct places from the meanings produced by the relationships between people and their connection with space. The project's activities include participatory workshops on solidarity economy, embroidery on shirts, dance, music, storytelling, theater, slackline, and circus fabric. These activities promote the active participation of girls and women from the community, as well as university students and professors. The project has also expanded to the adjacent community, maintaining the same identity and engaging in local cultural activities. The project's experience is shaped by differences, adversities, and possibilities, but above all, to validate the recognition of gender-based violence and to create coping strategies, beyond this context. In this sense, the project seeks to create viable alternatives for the construction of research methodologies, shared work, cooperation, and social participation, promoting ethical-political reflection and challenging established power structures. Inspired by the theories of authors such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Carol Gilligan, and Judith Butler, the Maria Jiquitaia project becomes a space of resistance and collaborative practices, where girls, women, and researchers are active agents in defining actions. This approach contributes to the construction of contextualized knowledge grounded in diverse perspectives for collective practices.