A (self)Portrait of the Indigenous Woman As a Young Researcher

This presentation, based on a doctoral thesis defended in 2024, investigates how Indigenous peoples use artistic practices to challenge invisibilization and marginalization. Based on the familial and political relationship between the author and Indigenous artists, a broad overview of the contemporary Brazilian Indigenous movement is outlined, observing and highlighting resistance strategies that challenge white and Western hegemony in artistic and political spaces in Brazil. It also addresses the author's own process of self-recognition as an Indigenous person from the Kambeba people, and presents art as a vital strategy in ethnic resistance, preserving Indigenous identities and ways of life.

Methodologically, the thesis adopted an Autoethnographic perspective, drawing from the author's experiences within her own Indigenous family and artistic context. Additionally, it explored Arts-Based Research to engage with Indigenous artists from other contexts.

A (self)Portrait of the Indigenous Woman as a Young Researcher is a presentation of the results from a doctoral thesis, while also exploring the author's own process of self-recognition and affirmation as an Indigenous researcher within the context of the precarization of academic labor and personal experiences as an immigrant woman.