Yo-yo Sewing and Scraps of History of Female Suffering: Experience Report with a Political-Clinical Tool

Abstract

This is an experience report about the activities of extension and curricular internship that aimed at the production of a space for the sharing of stories and the creation of artisan pieces among women of an urban community in a rural city of Alagoas. With it, the objective is to establish a critical debate on some possibilities for Psychology to act in contexts of social vulnerability. The activities happened from September 2022 to June 2023, divided into two moments. First, we carried out home visits, meetings with community leaders and elaboration of diagnosis of needs. On the other hand, the phase of psychosocial intervention occurred through the realization of conversation circles and creative sewing offices (yo-yo sewing). As results, it seeks to suggest that the stories entangled throughout the process are symptomatic of the forms of ethical-political suffering experienced by women in the context of intersecting social vulnerability and domination. Along with this, we seek to sustain that the availability of social spaces and the sharing of stories can help them not face such adversities, constituting a powerful political-clinical tool in psychology.