Violência e dor em narrativas de mulheres transexuais em Manaus.

Abstract

The marks left by violence cause pains that often do not seem obvious to those who count them. This is particularly due to the work of time (Das, 2007) that somehow gives us the opportunity to recount these stories with other colors and intensities. This dissertation tries to enter the life histories of eight transsexual women in order to contribute to the analysis of the violence to which these women are subjected, identifying the articulation of the violence against this population with the process of risk and social vulnerability to which they are exposed. Based on the life history method, we sought to collect information about the participants' various life stages, from childhood to adulthood, and their interactions in the family, at school, at work, in loving relationships, in care services. For this, an interview script was used, producing narratives that were recorded, transcribed and analyzed. The analyzes of these histories were proposed in two ways: the first one in which we captured the complete history of four interlocutors, and then we made interlocutions with the pains counted by them; the second where we cross the lines of the four narrators, articulating an endless spectacle of violence. Authors like Gail Mason (2002) and Rita Segato (2003) as well as the work of several researchers subsidized the analyzes and contributed in the amplification of this debate suggesting a critical look beyond essentialist visions on gender and sexuality. On the interlocutions between violence and pain, we perceive that the pain felt at the moment of the event is retold in a different way, even not being pain, and that sometimes it is maneuvered by silence and forgetfulness. Violence and violations as an endless spectacle point out that they will never cease to exist, but that it is the construction of protection and security strategies to reduce the process of victimization of the interviewees.