Feminine-Boys: Gender, Sexuality, and Curriculum in Three Brazilian School Trajectories

• In Event: Roundtable Session 19
  In Roundtable Session: Considering School Practices and Student Identities in Particular National Contexts

Abstract

This paper analyses school trajectories of three young people with experiences of gender transition in Brazil. The argument I will develop is that policies of recognition, through which your bodies are materialized, happen from a double interlacing between gender and sexuality interpellations and the curricular discourse, allowing us to rethink the place of school in the imaginative horizons of a scenario increasingly described and perceived in terms of fluidity, irregularities and ambivalences. I intend to show how ambivalences are established when the uses and meanings of discursive categories such "gay" negotiate with local cultural flows, in which their bodies are transferred from a dispossession region to the discursive terrain of the subject.

Author

• Thiago Ranniery Moreira de Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro