Mentir pra si mesmo é sempre a pior mentira : a heteronormatividade na narrativa da trajetória escolar de mulheres lésbicas e bissexuais

Abstract

The social norm at school in which the heterosexual pattern of conduct tends to operate and would be the one to have validity and recognition is the heteronormativity. In this paper, I discuss the meanings of heteronormativity usually prevalent in school education, from the questioning points of view of lesbians and bisexual women narratives about their school trajectories, built through narrative interviews. Based on theories about performativity and language iterability by Jacques Derrida, as well as in discussions on gender, developed by Judith Butler and Joan Scott; and, narrative and biographical space, as proposed by Leonor Arfuch, I have set interpretative keys for questioning the records of narrative interviews used in this work. The research allowed to reaffirm the urgency to address issues related to gender and sexuality in education as a way to combat prejudice and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender performance, to the extent that deconstructs the idea that there is a truth about sex, a single, correct way to perform gender itself. In the narratives built at the research, it becomes explicit that the school experience tends to be a less oppressive process when the speeches affirmed in the space-time of the school are the one of valorization of the difference and not the constant repetition of the imperative of heteronormativity. I conclude also that the spread of naturalized heteronormativity can cause various forms of injury to students, regardless of them having or not a non-normative sexual orientation and/or gender performativity