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Desenhos / Drawings
Here some of my drawings. Alguns dos meus desenhos.


How my cat was important to see how complex research is
Como a minha gata me mostrou a dimensão afetiva da minha pesquisa. I was in a very intense moment without much sleep, losing weight, and facing financial struggle to take care of her. All my time with her at that moment was about giving her meds by force, watching her suffer without any action and taking her to doctors to bring her more suffering. Everything was dark and sad, the opposite of the way it had been the whole time we lived together. In my drawings, her presence wa

Anelise Molina
Apr 191 min read


My body in my comics/zine
Como meu corpo fala na minha história em quadrinhos. Você pode ampliar essa imagem clicando nela. You can increase the size by clicking it. Comics media call attention to the materiality of the elements represented, including the body (Rys, 2019, p. 10). Still, in my case, the representation of this materiality is obscured by unrealistic colors, which not only elicits curiosity but also prompts reflection on how to interpret the narrator's body and, consequently, the narrativ

Anelise Molina
Apr 191 min read


with one foot in each canoe
Com um pé em cada canoa... As I have been working on researching Brazil from Canada (this image of standing in the middle of the river with one foot in each canoe) since the beginning of this dissertation, I have had to learn to see this unstable position as both a problem and a solution. That is why I continue this chapter by reviewing several authors who have already examined this site of instability in research and can help me identify a starting point. Concepts such as li

Anelise Molina
Apr 181 min read


My place is on the dancefloor
Meu lugar é na pista! While preparing Chapter 4, I read more about this posición fronteriza (Anzaldúa, 1987) that I occupy and drew on multiple South/North American and European authors who were part of academia but did not fully belong. This feeling could be translated as being invited to a party but never finding a seat. Someone allowed you to enter, but did not prepare a room for you. You cannot rest your feet, calmly talk with others, enjoy your drink… in this environmen

Anelise Molina
Apr 181 min read
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