This Academy will not make us "Bad": Feminist Co-authoring as a Practice of Resistance and Subversion

Abstract

This chapter offers an immersion in the experience of co-authoring we shared during two writing retreats in a home by the sea in Sardinia. It is a narration from intimate moments when, as precarious transfeminist researchers, we explored the entanglement of our academic and political positionalities with our friendship. We recognise in the feminist co-authoring shared between friends a tool to care and resist the individualisation and isolation of the neoliberal academia. We envisage this form of co-authorship as a way to acknowledge forms of oppression reproduced by the academia, and a reflexive practice to prevent us from reproducing it. Therefore, we advance the hypothesis that co-authoring could turn into a political practice to resist the potential oppressor that lies within us, and to fight it, trying to not become bad.