O que podem as crianças quando a maquinaria corpo-gênero-sexualidade falha?

Abstract

The child understood as the subject of childhood is commonly perceived and spoken by adult optics, becoming bodies that do not speak for themselves. A complex organization of medical, pedagogical and psychological skills works to ensure that the relationship with children continues to be tutelage and control, so that they meet an adult civilization project. The first activity of these knowledges consists in making the child a sexed body. At birth, it is identified in one of the binary possibilities of feminine and masculine. In addition to identification, a script is drawn as a path consistent with your gender. We sought, in this research, the encounter with children so that other narratives about ways of living the body can appear. It was not intended to find a description of the child subject, but to seek with them the breaches and possible escapes within the fabric relations of the sexes and genders that are invested over their bodies by adult centric regimes. The methodological approach approached the researches with daily ones, understanding that it is a network process, of local character, where the implication of the researcher was considered and all involved are understood as daily practitioners. The research had as a field of reference the public squares, more specifically the spaces like playgrounds and sports courts, considering the circulation of children in these places. However, there have also been scenes and narratives that have occurred in other places, understanding that a research produced with the living can extrapolate the limits that positivist science can determine as a field of research. The meetings indicated that children can establish other relationships, escaping adult rigidity, body-living, and gender-based performances. In this way, they are able to expose the fragilities of the models of the binary genres, of their attempts at reproduction and naturalization on the bodies. Acting tactically, in the neglect of the adult gaze, they show themselves capable, through laughter and play, to question the supposed naturalness of the elements that characterize the feminine and masculine. Understanding that educational discourses and practices with children are mostly based on adult logic, we also seek, through this text, to participate in the formative-educational debate about children, considering the compositions that they are able to produce in the crossings between body, gender and sexuality. Far from thinking about child educations manuals, the proposal is an invitation to look at/with the children in their practices, negotiations, relationships and in their capacity to live the body in their possibilities, without enclosing it in identities.