Learning from a listening body: whiteness and cisheteronormativity in training in social psychology

Abstract

 In this article, we propose to discuss the whiteness and cisheteronormativity that sustain the walls of the university. To this end, we built a theoretical and methodological path based on the methodology of cartagrafia (Battistelli, 2017) in dialogue with storytelling (hooks, 2020). Therefore, we tell stories of everyday life at the university, of training in the field of social psychology. These stories are told to Clara, a fictional character created with the aim of dialoguing with the white people who make up this training field, seeking to confront the policies of domination and contribute to the pluriversity of relationships that expand the possibilities of our listening, in alliance with the countercolonial struggles, always maintaining the next question: How is it possible for us not to avoid inhabiting discomfort - as a place of confrontation - in the face of our own actions (and the actions of people close to us) based on white supremacy and cisheteronormativity?