Corpa-Trans em (A)fronteiras: uma cartografia poética para afrontar a normatividade

Abstract

This work aims to transcribe the textures of a wayward body in a poetic process as an actress and performer. To do so, I discuss how the character from the monologue 'Mulher de Juan' impacted me and contributed to my becoming a trans woman, turning into the political power of a body that occupies spaces—one of them being education, a space that is often not ready to welcome us and ends up becoming a place of exclusion and violence for us. The interlude of this work will be birth; I will map the childhood I came from and who my ancestors are, who also contributed to this becoming, all in a way that de-pathologizes the (cis)tematic meaning that oppresses our bodies, bodies, and bodys. It is about cutting, removing pieces, disrupting the normativity. I bring into question theater as a tool for transformation and healing, and how this contributes to the trans/travesti social struggle as an affirmation of the right to be who we are. I call upon Judith Butler (2016), Paul Preciado (2022), Dodi Leal (2021), among other authors, for support and to make this writing more powerful.