This article presents a qualitative study of the life stories of women from Lamin, The Gambia, approached through the batik as a cultural practice and a tool for generating situated knowledge. Sponsored by the University of Guadalajara, the study proposes the collective construction of narratives through a creative and audiovisual space that promotes participation and horizontal dialogue. Grounded in intersectional theory, postcolonial feminism, and art-based research, it recognizes textile and audiovisual practices as legitimate forms of knowledge and challenges epistemic hierarchies. Methodologically, collaborative workshops were conducted to batik with audiovisual recording. The results show that the batik, together with audiovisual media, allows people to express their memories, identities, and experiences, thereby promoting agency and the production of contextualized knowledge.

Whe role that women play in today's society is the result of an ancestral assignment; however, this role is increasingly questioned by women themselves and it seems that the more they question, the more violence is generated against them, placing them in a staggering situation between being a victim or a victimizer. This is a project that delves into the construction of female identity through photographs of women who have been violated in various ways; It is an experimental proposal made with the inmates of the Puente Grande Center for Women's Reintegration, Jalisco (Mexico), with the aim that the participants were able to reconstruct their identity and link it with the violent environment where they grew up. We take into account subaltern and gender studies, as well as research based on art and the Between Voices methodology, so that this accompaniment would be from horizontality.