Conversas Desalinhadas is a publication that reflects on the 5 years of activity of the Readings Feminists Study Group and is composed of: written and/or visual essays by study group participants in conversation with texts, activities and people who gave life to the group’s sessions; a diagram of the first Caminhada das Corpas; a notebook of photographic documentation of the group; and interviews with those responsible for the alternative spaces that hosted the various activities.

The publication revisits the texts discussed and the activities carried out based on the idea of conversation. Therefore, we invited our network to engage in a dialogue with one of these texts and/or moments experienced in Leituras Feministas, in a format of their choice (article, poem, visual essay, letter, etc.). Conversas Desalinhadas is the result of these conversations and, we hope, simultaneously captures the spirit of the group’s experience over these past five years, but also serves as a call to action and reflection on intersectional feminist and decolonial epistemologies and methodologies. With contributions from Simone Amorim, Joana Baptista Costa, Gabriela Carvalho, Carla Cruz, Hilda de Paulo, Danielle Fernandes, Renata Gaspar, Mariana Leão, Leticia Maia, Alicia Medeiros, Holga Mendez, Amanda Midori, Isabeli Santiago, and Orlando Vieira.

The Feminist Readings Study Group emerged in 2019 as a response to the growing interest in feminist, intersectional, queer, and decolonial theories and methodologies. Over the past five years, we have discussed texts, exhibitions, and films, held conversations with invited speakers, held workshops, held night walks, and conducted body-based explorations. The meetings took place within FBAUP/i2ADS, online during the COVID-19 lockdown, and alongside independent spaces such as A Leste, a Gralha, a Filó, Maus Hábitos, and Casa Odará. The debate has encompassed issues as broad as: the visibility of feminist and minority artistic practices and the impact of their recovery within art history; sexual, racial, and class difference as drivers of the practice and reading of art and culture; feminist and postcolonial readings; practices in the expanded field, art, performance, and life; the personal is political; practices of care, responsibility, and accountability; methodologies of resistance, among others.

The book is available HERE