Embodiing knowledge in the path of deconstructing sentient/existing/learning sexualities

Abstract

In this article, we will address experiences, reflections, and knowledge constructed through the implementation of an outreach project in which we position ourselves as learning bodies (UNLPam, FCH, FCEyN). Our objective is to challenge colonial, patriarchal, binary, and heteronormative logics that operate as underlying structures that justify and perpetuate discriminatory and exclusionary behaviors in university education. We will specifically attempt to communicate our feelings and (trans) formations and those of those who support the project, using different didactic strategies that invite outreach workers to challenge their representations and
personal biographies.
This outreach project involves high schools, university students, a sports institution, representatives from local organizations, educational institutions, and outreach workers (teachers, graduates, and student teachers in Biological Sciences, Mathematics,
Literature, English, History, Geography, and Education Studies).
In this manuscript, we focus on a case analysis of a genuine, shared experience based on political and decolonized commitment: the “ESI Workshop: Bodies in Motion” –developed between extension workers and social actors– designed as a possible alternative for teacher training.
Some reflections encourage us to consider extension didactics, or how teaching based on local issues enhances meaningful, meaningful, and vital learning. We understand that ways of thinking about critical extension, with the development of comprehensive practices, connect us not only with people from different institutions but also with the knowledge emanating from each particular location.
In this sense, we interweave diverse perspectives and build networks that sustain and enable the tension between representations, prejudices, rivalries, and distancing that only perpetuate patriarchal gender coloniality. From this reticular plot we lovingly allow
ourselves to doubt and revise our conceptions to propose knowledge and understanding about corporeality and sexualities that make it possible to comprehensively embody in our lives all the dimensions that compose us and make us (be)ing.