Writing, Reading, and Doing Things Together

A Brief Chronicle of an Infected Classroom

Abstract

How can one make someone who was disappeared present, how can one make them appear? How can one represent those who were always invisible? How can this be done in the classroom? This essay comes out of the collective teaching experience at a Latin American public university: The National Autonomous University of Mexico. I will use the description and analysis of a specific scene to demonstrate how performatic readings (done aloud, in a collective and with the body in the foreground) are an efficient strategy in creating a critical classroom and an “infected” pedagogical praxis: that is to say, a collective one, committed to social urgencies (especially those with approaches from feminisms and descolonial proposals).