COMING OUT OF THE SCHOOL CLOSET: EDUCATIONAL AUTOETHNOGRAPHY AS A MEANS OF REFUNDING GENDER VIOLENCE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Keywords: Queer childhood. Elementary School. Gender. Sexuality.
Based on autoethnography, it understands gender colonialism in the dynamics of coming out within the final years of Elementary School. The author makes an autoethnography problematizing how the normativity of gender and sexuality develops when a queer child has his dissident identity exposed within the school and its consequences. To this, the author tells how was her coming out in the 6th year of elementary school in Brazil, still at the age of 12-years-old, in the city of São João do Sabugi, in the countryside of State of Rio Grande do Norte, and how from then on her life was entirely resignified by practices of gender violence. In this way, the author focuses on understanding how social exclusion by gender and sexuality composes a kind of gender colonialism from Ancient Age to Modern Age, and how such relationships are still crossing the field of school, encompassing a violence involvement of learning. As a source, it uses autobiographical reports previously published in an online activist site web, for the Laboratory of Languages and Sexual Diversity (LALIDIS), linked to the State University of Southwest Bahia, in the year 2020. The work perceives how the sex-gender-sexuality colonialism within the educational system shapes a series of marked violence on the queer child does not correspond to the social pattern of heterosexuality and cisgenderism, conjecturing a punitive education social project. Attention is drawn to care for dissident children.