Banca de DEFESA: ANDREA PAULA DA COSTA MUNÇÃO

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STUDENT : ANDREA PAULA DA COSTA MUNÇÃO
DATE: 23/04/2026
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: UFRN- Laboratório de Psicologia - Sala 631
TITLE:

Crocheting Escrevivências: Textures of the Black Mother in Peripheral Women’s Collectivities

 

KEY WORDS:

Escrevivências; Black women; Motherhoods; Peripheral collectivities; Psychoanalysis

PAGES: 177
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

This research seeks to embody its writing, in the sense that the craft of this work is constituted through an entanglement of stories from different women, including my own. As a Black, cisgender, Northeastern, and peripheral woman, I experience tensions in affirming myself as a researcher and psychologist within an academic environment that remains highly elitist and shaped by whiteness. I understand that conducting research in the university only makes sense when the body is implicated in the process, allowing historically silenced issues to emerge. From this standpoint, I investigate the experiences of mothers around me, who are marked by overload and insecurity, seeking to understand what mobilizes them to occupy a role that often exhausts them and deprives them of multiple dimensions of life. In this sense, I pose the following research questions: what “escrevivências” (lived writings) of motherhood can be produced with peripheral women in Natal/RN? How does raciality inscribe itself in these narratives? What singular traits of these experiences can be listened to and written from a participant-researcher position? The aim of this research is to produce escrevivências about motherhood as experienced by peripheral mothers, in dialogue with a group of women from the northern area of Natal/RN and with the work of Conceição Evaristo. The study was conducted with a group of women in a territory historically marked by social inequalities. Theoretically and ethically, it is grounded in Black feminism, and methodologically it is constructed through Gonzalez-inspired participant listening, escrevivência, and the ethics of Relation and Opacity proposed by Édouard Glissant. Fieldwork was carried out through continuous engagement with the group, including craft workshops, planning meetings, and social interactions, in which crochet emerged as a meaningful practice understood as a technology of care, memory, and resistance. Throughout the process, the research assumed an open and processual character, demonstrating that the method is built through the relationship between researcher and participants. As an analytical production, I developed nine escrevivências based on my body-memory, marked by the peripheral maternities of the group, and organized three analytical layers: scarcity and abundance; solidarity and hostility; and beauty and horror. The results reveal the group as a space of sociability and support, where affects and survival strategies circulate, while also being traversed by contradictions and the reproduction of violence. This research shows that discussing peripheral Black motherhood requires engaging with women’s collectives as complex spaces of subjectivity production, where oppression and resistance coexist. By valuing these narratives, this study contributes to recognizing alternative ways of producing knowledge in psychology, committed to confronting social inequalities and affirming plural ways of life.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - PRISCILLA MACHADO DE SOUZA
Presidente - 3060449 - ANA CAROLINA RIOS SIMONI
Externa ao Programa - 2177358 - MARIA APARECIDA DE FRANCA GOMES - nullExterna à Instituição - MARIA DA GRAÇA SILVEIRA GOMES DA COSTA - UFSB