Educational research in / with / on Esmeralda's black feminism. The vagina as a trope

In this text we take a journey through the interrelation between ethnography and body studies, taking as a case study the Technical University of Esmeraldas, analyzing and interpreting classroom workshops (micro) in relation to Afro-feminist social movements (meso) in the more northwestern and historically peripheral Ecuadorian province (macro); Next, we briefly relate some feminist contributions in their activist and epistemic aspects, focused above all on non-Eurocentric feminisms; and we dedicate a final section to elaborating an ethnographic proposal around the study of the body (vagina as a trope), centered on the academic theorization of black feminism in Esmeraldas. The conclusions section responds to how feminist ethnographies are not only possible, but they have already been practiced for a long time; and, at the same time that they are necessary, they are discoveries of marginalized spaces in the form of imagined hiding places - created for black women in Esmeraldas.