Nem Maria nem João, sapatão: um rebuceteio cartográfico

Abstract

abstractThis work emerged from a series of questions and, without necessarily answering them, brought many others to the surface. Some of the main issues are: who are the bodies and, therefore, the stories that are told? Who are the people who appear in the archives? The absence of the stories of sexual and gender dissidents in histories, the erasure of their existences from archives and the underreporting of violence committed against LGBTQIA+ people, while presences for years in medical textbooks and criminological texts, bring to light the invisibilization of sexual and gender dissidents, which hinders the creation of actions to combat violence and inclusive public policies. The invisibility games to which we are submitted make our lives to be at the edges - border lives. Within this context, this paper approaches this marginality, from the field with some female interlocutors, in order to explore the regimes of visibility and invisibility of these - lesbian/butch/dyke - bodies. So, the present research proposes a cartography linked to the notion of rebuceteio as a cartographic tool. We listened, provoked and talked about issues that cross the experiences of sapatonas and it resulted in narrative fragments of stories and memories of ordinary lives, told by seven participants and the author. We emphasize the experiences and their territorialities, which take place in a rural context or in the transit between urban and rural, in Espírito Santo, a brazilian state. In dialogue with these fragments, we rely on the references of feminist, racial and gender studies and, more specifically, lesbian feminism with Adrienne Rich and Monique Wittig.