1. TRANSmutando o significado de amor: reflexões sobre amores travestis em uma sociedade neoliberal
- Author
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Eduarda Augusto Lopes Rodrigues, Letícia Vilacorta Mansour, and Fabrício Ricardo Lopes
- Subjects
travestis ,trans woman ,neoliberalism ,intersectionality ,romantic love ,Latin America. Spanish America ,F1201-3799 ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
This article aims to present and generate reflections on the theme of romantic love and romantic encounters in the lives of trans and travesti women, crossed by a binary, cisheteronormative society governed by neoliberalism, which places all those subjectswho are not in a idealized love relationship as a failed subject, which is violence towards dissident bodies, having their subjectivity and singularity undermined in the field of affections. Through a theoretical study from the perspective of Queer Theoryand intersectionality, some answers were possible to be collected, which are briefly highlighted here. Love is a central theme for humanity, the constitution of the subject and their place in the world. However, for bodies that disobey gender and sexual norms, there is a ban on the right to affection that occurs due to the high rate of violence and its layers. Trans and travesti people end up being victims of a social imaginary that, although it defends love as universal, prohibits this possibility from them. It is argued that love is a product of culture and language and that travestis must have the right to love in their own way, if they so choose. This must occur to the detriment of neoliberal devices in a society marked by gender differences, social binomials and cisheteronormative coloniality.
- Published
- 2024