Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LAURA CARVALHO ANCONI

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LAURA CARVALHO ANCONI
DATE: 17/08/2026
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: IE
TITLE:

Experiences of “Gay Cure” and the Production of Subjectivity: Cartographies of So-Called Sexual Conversion/Reversal

KEY WORDS:

Sexual and gender minorities; sexuality; gay cure; subjectivity; cartography.

PAGES: 46
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

This research aims to map the experiences of people who have been subjected to practices informally known as “gay cure” or sexual reversal therapies, seeking to understand the effects of these processes on the production of subjectivity. Although widely contested by scientific organizations and human rights movements, such practices remain present in different social contexts, especially in religious, family, and therapeutic spaces, supported by discourses that frame dissident sexualities as inadequate, sinful, or subject to correction. Based on a perspective that understands subjectivity as a historical, social, and relational production, the research intends to follow the ways in which these discourses permeate participants’ experiences, producing suffering, identity conflicts, strategies of resistance, and processes of self-reconstruction. Methodologically, the study is grounded in the cartographic method, which seeks to follow processes in their dynamic dimension, privileging experience and the affects produced in encounters. Data collection will be carried out through interviews with people who have experienced sexual reversal practices, making it possible to follow which modes of subjectivity are being produced.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1331797 - AURELIANO LOPES DA SILVA JUNIOR
Interna - 1331913 - MARIANA FERREIRA POMBO
Externa ao Programa - 1794090 - CARLY BARBOZA MACHADO - UFRRJ