Self-Mounting: friendshiprelationsand trans experiences in Campos dos Goytacazes, 1990-2017
subjectivities; trans experiences; friendshiprelations; Campos dos Goytacazes.
With this thesis I present, problematize and interrogate historical modes of production of trans subjectivities in the city of Campos dos Goytacazes / RJ, between the years of 1990 and 2017. I understand that the experiences form subjects and subjectivities, so I highlight the historical mechanisms, strategies and possibilities of self-determination and self-definition, the ways in which the subjects name themselves and give meaning to the lived, mobilizing historical notions, such as transvestite, transsexual, transgender, trans and woman. I focus on trans experiences produced in the interface with the historical formations of femininities. Verticalize the analysis on the strategies, negotiations and reifications that conform these experiences, underlining the ways of tensioningthe heteronormative cystem. The transgender narratives allowed us to glimpse how ways of life were forged, how escape routes were produced, as well as mechanisms of resistance to cisheteronormative power. Dialoging and being inspired by the literature on friendship relations, I sought to favor an approach that emphasized these relationships in trans experiences. The webs of friendship are understood as an affective tissue, but equally as relations of disputes and conflicts. In these relationships, important components have appeared that materialize the trans experiences and allow, incite and make viable historical forms of self-creation. Therefore, self-assembling is an expression and meaning attributed by the trans universe, used to refer to the process of self-determination and self-expression, to bodily interventions, to the practice of using and "assuming" clothing and accessories considered feminine, and mainly, points to the possibility of mapping, research and historicize the ways in which the subjects are produced, such as the body, and the relations of friendship and with the family are constituted from certain conditions of possibilities.