Maira Cavalcanti Vale

“Everyone has a story to tell,” said Rose Miranda when talking about her writing process as part of the Cachoeiras Project – women writing Recôncavo da Bahia, the result of a partnership between andarilha edições and imuê – Instituto Mulheres e Economia. Funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation’s Engaged Research Grant, the project financed the production of books by five authors (in addition to Rose, Lucineide Souza, Clara Amorim Duca, Deisiane Barbosa and Any Manuela Freitas). The methodology was inspired by poetic uprisings (Barbosa 2020), collective writing meetings between women, combined with individual research, general meetings, dialog and the circulation of texts. By articulating the reflections from the production of the books and what the editorial work brings out, the project enabled discussions on co-creating research and texts, from co-authorship to book publishing. Writing here appears as a common (Dardot; Laval, 2017), a collective engagement (Morawska et al., 2022) with which we scribble other knowledge (Rodrigues, 2021) and tell other stories (Haraway 2016).