Hoje eu me pari: escrevivências como ato de descobertas e resistências acerca da trajetória acadêmica.

Abstract

This monograph aims to investigate the challenges of being a woman and being a university student, taking into account the contexts and identities of the students. With this in mind, the research originated from the following problem: how can the identities that permeate the lives of female students at the Teacher Training Center (CFP) of the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Cajazeiras campus, influence their academic training? The aim is to show how violence, especially gender-based violence, can affect the academic career of these students. As theoretical contributions, the study is anchored in the perspectives of decolonial and intersectional feminism, dialoguing with Anzaldúa (2000), Davis (2018), Evaristo (2020), Gonzalez (2020), hooks (2019), Oyěwùmí (2004), Ribeiro (2017), Vergès (2020), among other authors. Methodologically, we analyzed and discussed the letters from the research volunteers, in which they revealed the challenges they face in the academic space and the ways they find to overcome them; as well as filling out a form with the aim of profiling the university students. The dialogue and writings of these women point out that university mothers, university paid workers and university students who live far from the university are at a disadvantage in the academic world, given that their study time competes with other aspects of their lives, and that these disadvantages are exacerbated when university students are circumscribed in more than one identity. They also stressed the importance of discussing gender in educational spaces and of institutional support, based on effective public policies, for women's access to and permanence at university.