Como viver uma boa vida? narrativas lésbicas sobre retrocessos no cenário político brasileiro atual e outras possibilidades

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to analyze the lesbianities field from its intertwining with social and political transformations experienced in Brazil, especially in the second half of the last decade (2015 - 2019). It seeks to articulate the experiences of lesbian women in the historic moment marked by the governmental transition of 2018, in the complex tension of advances, setbacks and other possibilities of coping with an existence still significantly invisible. In this research/investigation path, the presence of some analyzers is inevitable, among them the very concept of gender, the specificities of lesbianities within the broad LGBT theme, Feminist Epistemologies, the transitions in the contemporary political scene, the advance of fundamentalism religious and the need to value the authorial narratives that expand the field of lesbianities from the speeches of the lesbians themselves about who they are, their spaces of circulation, vulnerabilities and expectations. If, on the one hand, the interviews carried out at three different moments in the electoral/political process (September 2018; March 2019 and December 2019) - used as one of the strategies for reflective analysis of this doctoral research - pointed to a restrictive scenario to the full exercise of plural lesbianities, on the other hand, revealed potent ways of building alliances in which the desire to overcome current setbacks is increasingly inevitable.