Using and adapting the framework of ‘cuerpo y territorio’ (body and territory) a geographical method from Latin America for the study of embodiment by Sofia Zaragocin & Martina Angela Caretta (2021), Yeisil prompted the audience to connect fiction to reactions on the body. To do this she shared brief excerpts from Chilean, Nigerian, and Pakistani fiction written by women in English. Participants were asked to react to the excerpts of the fiction by writing down an emotion out of each excerpt so they can put it on the body. A range of emotions like anger, dread, sadness, joy came up during the session. This was an embodied learning experience followed by a discussion how writing can evoke deep reactions and build solidarities.

Yeisil Peña Contreras is a PhD student at Northumbria University. She studies tricontinental solidarities in contemporary Postcolonial literature written by women from Nigeria, Pakistan, and Chile. Her research interests include transnational feminist theory, and recent political movements involving women.