Os unicórnios no fim do arco-íris: bissexualidade feminina, identidades e política no Seminário Nacional de Lésbicas e Mulheres Bissexuais.

Abstract

The initial construction of bisexuality as a political identity among women is one this dissertation s main purpose. Through a bibliographical research, analysis of documents produced by the social movements studied and semi-structured interviews conducted in field work in the year 2017 at the National Lesbian Seminar (Senale,1996-2010) that were the study-case and guiding line for the memory elaboration on the activism and militancy of lesbian and bissexual women in Brazil. Specially the seminar that took place in 2010 (Porto Velho-RO) changing its name to National Seminar on Lesbians and Bisexual Women (2010-); and, in particular the seminar held in 2014 (Porto Alegre-RS), where its acronym changed from Senale to Senalesbi (2014 -...). The 2016 Seminar (Teresina-PI) have special analytical importance in this dissertation, but all of them are considered of pivotal importance as gravitational centers in the political organization of bisexual women. The three of these seminars (2010,2014,2016), with significant presence of bisexual women, arose some conflicts around the name change of the event enhancing how, pragmatic and symbolic politically, can the disputes be amongst the identities lesbian and bissexual woman .