Stitching together damage, embroidering lives:

subjectivity and autonomy on stage

Abstract

This article analyzes Harm Reduction in Brazil through a conception of subjectivity understood as a situated, meaning-producing process. Autonomy is framed within an ethics of desire, in contrast to normative rationality, thereby affirming the co-authorship of care. Informed by cartographic approaches and fictional narratives, the study mobilizes clinical fragments and experiential accounts to examine care practices in contexts of vulnerability. By rejecting conventional theory–practice dichotomies, it conceptualizes Harm Reduction as a contested field and advances practices that foreground singularity and experience as legitimate sources of knowledge.