“Patriarchy destroys, capitalism makes war, LGBT blood is also landless blood!”: an analysis of the (de)construction of masculinities in the LGBT Sem Terra Collective."
Binarism, Landless LGBT Collective, Masculinity, MST Identity Processes
Abstract: This work aims to analyze the identity processes of peasant masculinities based on the roles attributed to the men who make up the Landless LGBTI+ Collective of the Landless Workers Movement (MST). With the aim of understanding how the construction of these hegemonic male identity processes, based on the experiences of these dissident bodies, can contribute to reinforcing a restrictive and exclusionary bias of plural identities in the field. Through the reproduction of cisnormative male and female performances solely and exclusively when the bodily and identity diversities of these individuals are not taken into account. In this way, from the perspective of gender binarism, where approaching femininity traits implies the devaluation of masculine identity for men and reverberates processes of delegitimization, invisibility and marginalization of these dissident bodies of peasant origin. Through semi-structured interviews and analysis of MST documents, we will seek to understand how men who perceive themselves as having identities different from the pre-established gender standard are part of these processes of (re)production of masculinities in historically and contextually dichotomous, sexist and patriarchal spaces. In this way, studies of gender, feminism and sexual diversity enable us to discuss the masculinities and pluralities of being a man and think about how gender violence and its conditions for marginalization, subalternity and exclusion are evidenced by the departure from the predetermined gender standard, where being feminine and/or effeminate is associated, throughout history, with passivity, docility, submission and not being a real man, denoting a character of denial of the masculine virile identity and distancing from the ideal of being a man due to the predominance of traits and cisheteronormative standards present in the social environment.