FENCES ON THE FLOOR AND THE TERRITORIALIZATION OF DESIRE IN THE AGRICULTURAL SPACE OF CEARÁ
Sexual and Gender Diversity. Agrarian Reform Settlements. Cisheteropatriarchy. LGBTI+ people. PACRA Network.
The weight of cisheteropatriarchy in the historical and cultural relations of the Brazilian social formation imposes limits to sexual and gender diversity in the agrarian space. This system of domination structures devices to control bodies and sexualities in peasant territories, instituting processes of invisibility and enclosure of sexual orientations and gender identities that are dissident from the cisheterosexual pattern, hindering the experience and sexual freedom of LGBTI+ people. In this sense, this research intends to examine the repercussions of the work of the Rede de Arte e Cultura na Reforma Agrária Ceará (PACRA) with LGBTI+ people regarding the recognition and affirmation of dissident sexual orientations and gender identities, considering the strong structure of cisheteropatriarchy in socio-territorial formation of agrarian reform settlements in Ceará. In addition, we seek to understand the weight of social institutions such as family and religion in hindering the sexual orientations and gender identities of LGBTI+ people in the agrarian space, as well as locating the limits and possibilities of experiencing sexual orientation and identity of gender for these subjects. It also seeks to understand the possibilities of acceptance, affirmation, appreciation and protagonism provided by the PACRA Network through its art and culture processes and, finally, to identify how the subjects participating in the PACRA Network take ownership of issues around sexual diversity and of gender and how this appropriation affects reflections and their daily lives. The work is based on an analytical perspective that privileges the understanding of reality as a complex totality saturated with multiple determinations, and it is from this perspective that it seeks to apprehend the dynamics of the movement and development of the object. It brings, thus, a conception of method that understands the concrete as the synthesis of different elements of the real, and therefore, unity of the diverse. The research is anchored in a qualitative approach and will be developed through the techniques of bibliographical and documental survey and in the collection of empirical data through participant observation and semi-structured interview. The research subjects will be LGBTI+ people linked to three agrarian reform settlements in the State of Ceará with insertion and participation in the PACRA Network.