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Physics is strongly associated with objectivity, and its content is usually taught and learned based on the assumption that physical phenomena can be truthfully studied and represented with human influence. Such an emphasis on objectivity is consistent with a masculinist, White supremacist, and Eurocentric view of science. A consequence of this is the pervasive belief that subjectivities are not relevant to the development of physics, which contribute to sustain exclusionary practices within the physics community. In order to offer a possible alternative to this perspective, in this workshop Carolina Vidor will present the fundamentals of the sentipensante (sensing/thinking) pedagogy as proposed by the critical educator Laura Rendón. Participants will be invited to engage in a few practical activities based on sentipensante pedagogy. This workshop aims to create a working space where physicists and physics educators can hopefully become more critical and (self)reflexive about their own practices and beliefs, thus opening the possibility to recognize the role and value of embracing subjectivity to the development of more equitable practices in physics.