A Journey of Silences and Encounters: The Story of a Scholar Indigenous Strategy to Counter Sexual Violence in Mexico

In recent years, international organizations have stressed the need to collect accurate information that grants a better understanding of the situation faced by children and adolescents. That approach has been challenged by feminist theories in order to open spaces for local knowledge that can not fit in the mainstream development This research is a journey of encounters. The encounters result of the analysis of a practice to counter sexual violence against indigenous children in Oaxaca, Mexico. Using a postcolonialism feminist approach I got into the set of practices that give life to a particular strategy promoted by the indigenous education system which has been working in the mixe region. To observe how this strategy is implemented in the field brought a lot of insights that counter the approach used in the mainstream childhood studies. Throughout this research the insights will be explore to give voice to other knowledges.