This proposed contribution explores the convergence of literature and motricity as educational and cultural strategies to understand the needs, memories, and wellbeing of LGBTQIAPN+ people across the life course, with particular attention to older adults. Based on an experiential project entitled Motricity, Resistance and Literature, the contribution reflects on how body movement, literary narratives, dramatization, dance, and performance can function as tools for cultural resistance, identity affirmation, and collective care within LGBTQIAPN+ communities.
The aim is to discuss how embodied and narrative practices may help reveal needs that are often difficult to capture through conventional health and social care measures, especially among older LGBTQIAPN+ people whose life histories may include stigma, invisibility, discrimination, and the erasure of collective memories. The approach involved practical workshops in which literary texts related to cultural resistance, social struggles, and dissident identities were used as triggers for reading, dialogue, dramatization, collective creation, and bodily expression. Participants were invited to transform memories, emotions, and narratives into symbolic gestures, movements, and performative sequences.
The experience suggests that integrating word and body can expand awareness of identity, belonging, vulnerability, and resistance. It also creates spaces for listening, recognition, empowerment, and the preservation of marginalized cultural traditions. This contribution is relevant to the workshop because defining and measuring the needs of older LGBTQIAPN+ people requires attention not only to clinical and social indicators, but also to embodied memories, cultural expression, community belonging, and the affective dimensions of care. It offers a Brazilian perspective on how arts-based and body-centered methodologies can enrich international discussions on LGBTQIAPN+ aging, wellbeing, and inclusive care.