Homens trans(bordados) : experiências juntas e misturadas na produção de outras masculinidades

Abstract

The term "trans man" refers to a political and social category of people who refuse to be defined as women, looking for various motives and processes identifying themselves with the masculinities, overflowing norms of sex and gender. Thinking about the low representativeness of these subjects in the research on transsexualities, the objective of this dissertation is to produce collective experiences with trans men, creating potential relationships with the life and ways of the life; to produce encounters in which life histories circulate that also concern the collectives that cross them; to create networks of solidarity and friendships with them, discussing the ways and the methods used by these subjects for their creation; to know the good stories, the movements of resistances and the transformations in the lives of trans men, besides suffering or mortifications in life. The method of this work is guided by cartographic studies and daily studies, and a total of five interviews with trans men were made. The text is divided in four moments that dialogue with themes that have arising throughout the research: Transviante research, in which I approach the methodological proposals for this work and how they have been changing over the two years of research ; in Body, I bring some notes on the production of the body brought by trans men of research; in the chapter Policies, I present the policies produced by trans men to the implementation of the Brazilian Institute of Transmasculinities of Espírito Santo (IBRAT-ES), autobiographical productions and research; and in Cuttings I present and problematize some important moments for the production of knowledge about transmasculinities. In the encounters and experiences with trans men, we can see a spin of realities that put these same subjects into desiring movements in order to sculpt a new body, a new thinking and a new existence. Much more than knowing the production of merely sexualized subjects, we observe the production of life.