Banca de DEFESA: HIGOR GONÇALVES DE MELO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : HIGOR GONÇALVES DE MELO
DATE: 03/11/2022
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Formato híbrido: Laboratório de Psicologia sala 622 e https://meet.google.com/gzb-bbuk-cuc
TITLE:

SEXUAL DIVERSITY AND URBAN EXPERIENCES: A STUDY IN THE CITY OF NATAL/RN

KEY WORDS:

sexuality, territory, performativities

PAGES: 178
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

We, from the LGBTQIAPN+ community, go through many types of violence and death during our life experience, and very often, even before we get to recognize our sexuality. Whether it is at home, school, place of work or on the streets, we are frequent victim of LBTQIAPN+fobia and we need  to create strategies that promotes quality of life, freedom and mainly, make our cause visible and guarantee rights for our community. Considering the street as one of the most hostile places towards our lives, there is, therefore, a search and dispute for spaces in the city where there can be recognition with other people from the LGBTQIAPN+ community, socialization and also the creation of a sense of belonging, and that can become spaces of fight and political resistance. In this way, we ask: in what ways does the LGBTQIAPN+ community, historically made invisible, make possible the multiple expressions and gender performativities and sexuality within a given urban context? The main objective of this work is to analyze the experiences of LGBTQIAPN+ people in regard to the ways in which they (re)transform spaces in the city, making them possible for their multiple expressions of gender and sexuality. The specific objectives consist of: A) Exploring the socio-spatiality that involves the experience of LGBTQIAPN+ people in the creation, occupation, invention and maintenance of spaces in the city; and B) To analyze the performativity of LGBTQIAPN+ people in the spaces of the city in search of visibility, recognition and appreciation of their bodies. The data collection was realized by  a self-applied virtual questionnaire, widely disseminated on social midia, in which people from the LGBTQIAPN+ community, over 18 years of age and residents of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, were invited to participate. The results show that, even with the diversity that exists inside the LGBTQIAPN+ community, our bodies share several feelings in regard to performing our gender identity and sexuality in the city, such as the search for spaces of sociability that are safe and that promote some welcoming to LGBTQIAPN+ bodies that inhabit the city, identification of elements that stand out in the occupied space so that people recognize it and be recognized within the community and specificities for rejection of certain spaces in the city, for example. The data also point out that the LGBTQIAPN+ socialization spaces were co-opted by the market logic and, therefore, where, before, they were supposed to be spaces of inclusion, given the marker of shared gender identity and sexuality, the spaces also become excluding because of factors such as race, social class, place of residence, among others that, when intersectionalized, operate on the possibility, or not, of access to city spaces. Finally, the results show that the LGBTQIAPN+ performativities carried out in the city can cause ruptures in the standard of the cisheteronormative norm and, in this way, make the city an effective place for all people, making the LGBTQIAPN+ perform transformative and, therefore, political. of and in urban space.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - JULIANA PERUCCHI
Presidente - 2086520 - CANDIDA MARIA BEZERRA DANTAS
Externo ao Programa - 3217432 - TADEU MATTOS FARIAS - null