WEAVING VULNERABILITY

WARPS OF WORDS

Authors

  • Fernanda Ribeiro, M.Sc. in Occupational Therapy Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9012-5880
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    The author declares no competing interests related to this research.

  • Carla Silva, PhD Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7079-8340
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    The author declares no competing interests related to this research.

  • Tatiana Doval, PhD University of Sorocaba, Occupational Therapy Program, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9618-614X
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    The author declares no competing interests related to this research.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47222/2526-3544.rbto69440

Keywords:

Occupational Therapy, Art., Fragility, Metaphor, Concepts

Abstract

Objective: This article explores vulnerability as both a conceptual framework and an embodied experience, alongside its political potency, through an artistic composition that interweaves weft, threads, and textual fragments. The work proposes a visual and tactile metaphor, evoking the complexity of the concept through its materialities—textures, weaves, and colours—which symbolise both the fragility and the resistance inherent to the human condition. Image Description: The analysis of the artwork suggests that vulnerability constitutes a space of openness to the other and for social transformation. Its visual and tactile fragmentation invites a reflection on the provisional and incomplete processes of signification, thereby challenging hegemonic norms and suggesting new possibilities for care and collective existence

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Author Biographies

Fernanda Ribeiro, M.Sc. in Occupational Therapy, Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar)

Visual artist, with postgraduate studies in Art Education and in Gestures of Writing. Master and PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Occupational Therapy at the Federal University of São Carlos (São Carlos – Brazil). Co-founder of the Unsquepensa Arte collective. Member of the research, extension, teaching, and culture group Human Activities and Occupational Therapy, at the Federal University of São Carlos, and of the Research Nucleus on Phenomenology in Art, at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul.

Carla Silva, PhD, Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar)

Occupational Therapist, Master and PhD in Education, with postgraduate studies in Cultural Management and in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Universidad Central de Cataluña Vic – Spain. Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, in the undergraduate program in Occupational Therapy and in the Graduate Program in Occupational Therapy (Master’s and Doctorate) at the Federal University of São Carlos (São Carlos – Brazil). Coordinator of the research, extension, teaching, and culture group "Human Activities and Occupational Therapy." Coordinator of Culture (Office of Extension and Community Engagement) at the Federal University of São Carlos.

Tatiana Doval, PhD, University of Sorocaba, Occupational Therapy Program, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil

Occupational therapist, Master in Education and PhD in Occupational Therapy. Faculty member in the Health Sciences programs (Biomedicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Speech-Language Pathology, Nutrition, Dentistry, Psychology, and Occupational Therapy) at the University of Sorocaba. Member of the Research Group on Education and Health Training Policies, and of the Teaching, Research, Extension and Culture Group Human Activities and Occupational Therapy (AHTO).

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Published

2026-05-01

How to Cite

Ribeiro, F. de C., Silva, C. R., & Amador, T. D. (2026). WEAVING VULNERABILITY: WARPS OF WORDS. Interinstitutional Brazilian Journal of Occupational Therapy - REVISBRATO, 10(2), 3945–3954. https://doi.org/10.47222/2526-3544.rbto69440

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2026): (ISSN eletrônico 2526-3544)

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