Drag o quê?: sociabilidades, resistências e comunicação no Movimento das Themonhas no NoiteSuja, em Belém

Abstract

This essay aimed to understand and analyze how the Drag culture constitutes the experience of the subject and their sociability, specifically in the Demonha’s movement, in the context of the NoiteSuja movement, a network created in Belém that brings together Drag Queens from the local artistic scene, how the Drag constitutes the experience and constructions of these subjects who perform Drag. From the Communication study area, with sociabilty category, performance, gender and digital social media. The research area was carried out from March to December 2018, covering the analysis of five NoiteSuja parties. Interviews were also conducted with a semi-structured script, with nine Demonhas Drags interlocutors. It was so analyzed how Demonhas, through practices of sociability and performances, articulate themselves in on-off-line networks, also group in their Haus and invest their bodies on the streets, in a Megazord of Demonhas, sharing agendas and resisting, in existences crossed by sanctions that tend to seek the normalization of their bodies and the denial of their lives.