Production of collective life at the university: counter-hegemonic formative movements built by the LeMarx Women's Collective, Angela Davis study group

Abstract

This work is the result of a master’s degree in education, carried out between 2018 and 2020, which aimed to explore counter-hegemonic formative movements built by the LeMarx Women’s Collective: Angela Davis Study Group, at the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Bahia. In the work constructed by the constructor-participants of the Collective, most of whom are black cisgender women (students, professors, and graduates) who are dissatisfied with the inequalities, we tried to bring together understandings about the politicization of our unrepaired historical wounds, a movement they experience when they demand access to the theories that dialogue with their realities. Through participant observations, interviews, and meetings in reflexive groups, we were able to access part of what they weave as they study together to qualify their struggles. In this article, we focus on the power of collectivizing the confrontations that the dominant structure insists on individualizing, rejecting a reformist naivety that often expects emancipatory change to come from what is settled in traditions. Understanding it is a long road, in the university and beyond, we want to contribute to other studies involved in making collective insurgences visible, in which organized revolt breaks down walls and build bridges in defiance with tyrannical hornbooks.