Vivências trans amazônidas: partilha do sensível, política e arte

Abstract

This dissertation draws on the lived experiences of trans people born in the Amazon region to examine distributions of the sensible, politics, and the arts concerning issues of gender, ethnic origin, and regional inequalities in Brazil. Grounded primarily in interviews with a group of thirteen participants, it employs oral history techniques to: a) Weave together narratives of the participants’ childhoods and youths, introducing common elements of the expansive Amazonian context in which they grew up; b) Document details of their engagement in social movements, extending reflections on the political trajectory that converges into LGBT+ and Indigenous agendas; and c) analyze aesthetic and political issues in the arts through the works of three Amazonian artivists who also engage in drag performance. Theoretically inspired by studies addressing politics, processes of subjectivation, and the voice of marginalized groups, particularly those of Gayatri Spivak and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, this research establishes a dialogue between these authors' contributions and the work of philosopher Jacques Rancière. This dialogue aims to produce insights into the interrelations among Travesti experiences, LGBT+ and Indigenous politics, and the arts in the Amazon. The study reveals ways in which politics and aesthetics can interweave, contributing, in various contexts, to the formation of political subjectivation processes and the emergence of communities unified by their denunciation of and resistance to harms such as invisibility and exclusion