“Somos veteranas!” as experiências do tempo vivido a partir das narrativas e das memórias de mulheres travestis e transexuais

Abstract

The main objective of this dissertation is to show the self - perception of the experiences of aging in transvestite and transsexual women 's bodies, in order to bring to the surface narratives that express their experiences over time and that run counter to the personal projects of the research interlocutors. Thus, the memory narratives tell part of the stories of these women, who constitute part of the cityscape of Belém - Pará, not even limiting their experiences to this locality. I seek to discuss issues related to gender patterns and transfeminities, thus pointing to the differences between the identity constitutions of a trans becoming in the city. Therefore, the narratives are the ways to better understand the peculiarities that exist in this plot that involves the various social institutions: family, state, school, among others. The north of this ethnographic text, in addition to the trajectories, also involves the varied notions about the aging trans body, so the peculiarities appear in the singular experiences of each of the five interlocutors who were part of this research. The "olds woman‘s" of the present day were the "dolls" of the past and affirm: "not old", we are "veterans".