Uma análise das temáticas de gênero e sexualidade acionadas por uma entidade do movimento estudantil universitário no Rio de Janeiro no período entre 2018 e 2020

Abstract

The Social Service Student Union of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (CASS/UERJ) is a student organization that, throughout the years, has been touching upon matters that are not limited to the academic space, such as discussions about gender and sexuality, among others. Thus, this work traces the approaches adopted by CASS/UERJ to propose those themes in order to analyze which aspects can influence their choices: the members' backgrounds, other forms of activism, interaction with other organizations, and so forth. The first part of this research is dedicated to the process of production of topics related to gender and sexuality. To go over those issues, posts from the CASS/UERJ Facebook page published between 2018 and 2020 will be retrieved, as well as semi-structured interviews with current and former members of the union. The second part of this research aims to analyze the historical and political moment in which those subjects were raised, leading to the understanding of the strategies and limits of the student organization, especially in relation to the offensive of conservative sectors in our society. In the third part, the idea of belonging to CASS/UERJ is explored, considering the axes of social differentiation and agency, in addition to the meaning of the trajectories of the interviewees in the process of becoming subjects and their motivation to engage in discussions about gender and sexuality within the academic environment.