Carol Stampone moves between writing, philosophy, and art, approaching writing not only as a literary form but as a way of being with others. Born in Brazil and based in Bergen, Norway, she draws on feminist and decolonial thought and on methodologies such as escrevivência, lugar de fala (site of speech), and coracionar – thinking and feeling together as an embodied mode of knowing that recognizes emotion as constitutive of thought. These approaches foreground situated knowledge, lived experience, and forms of thinking that emerge as much from affect and embodiment as from literature and theory.

Shaped by migration, love, displacement, class, and identity, Stampone’s trajectory reflects a sustained inquiry into belonging and selfhood. Influenced by thinkers including Hannah Arendt, María Zambrano, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Conceição Evaristo, Bracha L. Ettinger, and Octavia Butler, she resists fixed identities, approaching subjectivity as relational and contingent – formed through race, gender, nationality, motherhood, and material conditions.

In this podcast, Carol Stampone speaks about writing as her first experience of belonging, motherhood as a deeply transformative and often traumatic process, and the politics of empathy and compassion. She reflects on the importance of asking better questions rather than seeking definitive answers, inviting us to stay with uncertainty, to think with others, and to imagine forms of living, caring, and creating that remain open, relational, and unfinished.

Listen on the website of Radio Web MACBA.