ABSTRACT
This writing is a bridge, a situated act of protest and an invitation. These days I have felt like an invisible thread/root pulled me strongly. Date: 18th of October 2019, when I felt an inevitable connection to the territory I had left a year before. My coordinates: Barcelona, 12,000 km away from the epicenter of the social outbreak that took place in that land occupied by the state of Chile. My experience of this distant crisis found shape in an embodied autoethnography. A first person writing, from a feminist and de(s)colonial perspective. That starts with a continuous critique of Chile, with its politics and authorities, but extends to the underlying institutions of formal education that favor hegemonic discourses, setting a biased path for research, intervention and teaching-learning dynamics. This chapter explores the articulation of the processes of protests and claims taking place in the territory of Chile, with the production of knowledge in mainstream academia. After pointing to its rotten nature, the walls and limitations, come reflections in the shape of a manifesto. A felt-thought declaration of consequence. An invitation to this on-going learning process of articulating an activist, feminist and de(s)colonial living toward acting for social justice in academia.
