Costuras de uma psicóloga-pesquisadora na TAR: uma colcha de retalhos de narrativas e vivências

Abstract

The present work addresses the trajectory of a master's student when she recognizes herself as a researcher-seamstress inside and outside the academy. In the search for a single theme, she perceives herself to be affected by multiple themes and states that this already constitutes her research field, as pointed out by SPINK (2003). Thus, this researcher bets on a science in the feminine (STENGERS, 1989), by bringing sewing to her research as a legacy of her ancestry, inspired by the seamstresses of her family. It is based on Quadros (2021) proposal, by bringing the practice of artisan women closer to the artisan practice in research as a methodology. Thus, this work is composed of patchwork instead of chapters where it presents the meeting of this researcher with the sewing, the deviations of her research experienced in the context of the covid-19 pandemic and the fabric of a patchwork quilt in the form of a dissertation. After presenting the patchwork, the seamstresses of the family are invited to share their narratives and stitch together this quilt. At the end, the researcher presents her last scrap, her non-human sewing: a piece of clothing and a dissertation. That said, she claims to finish this cycle of her patchwork quilt, but always recognizing it as open to new incorporations, to new encounters.