**5. Conclusions**

I am convinced that in my research, autoethnography is not only a useful, but also a challenging tool with which I systematically describe and analyze personal experience to understand cultural experience. I am confident that my autoethnographic account, going beyond a descriptive narrative, has become a critical reflection through which instead of looking only at "them", I can look at myself and thereby make knowledge from the place where I dwell. Like Tamy Spry [7] did with her autoethnographic work, I hope that my research clearly expresses the interactive textures that occur between my experience and that of the other inmates in the context of institutionalized confinement in a penitentiary. At the same time, this approach fulfills the objective of unveiling an unknown reality, finding the theoretical link to reflect on the process of creating sorority relationships between these women.

I have developed this research from a favored position that allows me to construct and reconstruct discourses and narratives from different perspectives. Firstly, from my experiences lived as an inmate in the San Miguel penitentiary in Puebla, Puebla in 2015. Then, as a leader of a project of management and support to inmates (2015– 2020) and now as a graduate research student since 2018. These experiences and perspectives have yielded copious data and information that has been used to produce a vast autoethnographic and ethnographic work that constitutes the innovative part of the research. It generates a dialog between the narratives of the lived and my thoughts and feelings with data and findings collected with ethnographic techniques, such as life histories and participatory workshops.

Finally, I can conclude that an autoethnographic narrative is a genuine companion method that builds a dialog with other qualitative methodologies. It also habilitates spaces for critical and theoretical reflection. The analysis of my own reality can accommodate the intersubjective interpretation of all the realities that converge in my story. My research becomes a space to make ourselves visible not from inequality, but from our own wisdom derived from our learning experiences, our strengths and struggles. I am creating a document in the form of a conversation with our own personal baggage to question and speak about women in confinement, their social constitution and, probably, to break down all the preconceptions we have about them. As a result, life stories and experiences in confinement become visible, generating modes of subjectification and what kind of relationships they put together to generate and strengthen pacts and alliances that translate into sorority [11].
