FEMININE VALUES: EXPERIENCES OF THE BODY FROM ARTIVISM IN TEACHER TRAINING

Abstract

This article presents an artivist experience in which 180 teaching students participate. From a feminist perspective, a university more humanized, naturalized, egalitarian, respectful of diversity and inclusive is claimed. For this purpose, anthropomorphic clay pots are modeled as a way of facing the experiences of our body. Micro stories are written to accompany these objects. And they are given to faculty and other university staff as a transfer of their learning. The methodology used is Arts Based Research from the perspective of A/R/tography. The analysis of reflections during the creative process of ceramics collects problems that especially affect the woman’s body: body asymmetry, censorship of nipples in social networks, aesthetics imposed by the mass media, scars, skin pigmentation, body hair, child hypersexualization, transsexuality and deterioration of the body. The analysis of the stories offers three thematic categories: testimonials of appreciation; recognition of teachers who exercised in a singular way a sensitive teaching; vindication of safer spaces, more inclusive architectures and environments that favor diversity. It is concluded that these types of actions are effective in promoting positive active attitudes for social and structural change against sexism.