Homelessness: Bodily Experiences for Thinking Gender in Bogotá (Colombia)

Abstract:

Street experiences are assumed in a different way by those who live on the streets, a space where a violent reading of the feminine is practiced. From a gender perspective, this article aims to make visible the constructions of the feminine and feminized bodies in Bogotá, recognizing the experiences of a group of girls and young women between 14 and 28 years old, with whom we worked based on an institutional ethnography carried out between 2012 and 2014, based on workshops focusing on their biographies through writing, sound and photography, as well as body mapping. The contributions of this research allow us to locate new discussions in the face of the experiences generated on the streets, and to reflect on methodological bets when promoting research with the ones living on the streets to vindicate their rights as political subjects in their daily lives.

Keywords:
street experiences; feminine bodies, bodily experiences; violence; street