The academic communities have participated in the construction of knowledge that aims to guarantee and protect human rights, namely, regarding gender and diversities (family interaction dynamics and conjugality, situation of people with disabilities, rights of LGBTQIA+ people, among others). These are studies and researches, whose results have contributed to the processes of elaboration and implementation of public policies. Thus, we present this panel with the purpose of receiving proposals that debate on the different articulations between universities and societies, between knowledge production and social movements/activisms, between research and the construction of public policies/relationships with the State. The themes of interest are related to gender activisms and the possibilities and alternatives that emerge from these experiences and critical perspectives in relation to the mode of social, economic and political organization guided by neoliberalism. Hence our interest in community care, understood here in a broad sense as "care for life" and in a view of the interdependencies present in collectives. Next, we intend to learn about and discuss the analytical and practical tools that are used in the aforementioned dimensions, based on proposals that bring us the incorporation of collaborative, participatory and decolonial methodologies (Thiollent, 2005; Aguillar et al, 1999), that is, exploring other methodological and pedagogical possibilities arising from community knowledge and practices. In this sense, it is important to constitute dialogical orientations where (new) keys set in motion in both environments, the academic and the community, and those arising from their encounter and consequent relations and interactions, are studied. Thus, we take into consideration reflections that will enrich the theoretical and simultaneously political debates in this field.