BEYOND BLACK, TRANS: AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS FOR TRANSVESTISE AND TRANSGENDER STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Affirmative Actions, Higher Education, Intersectionality, Transvestite and transgender students.
This study aims to perform a situated reflection about the crossings of affirmative action in the formative trajectories of transvestite students, women and transsexual men at Uneb under the lens of feminist studies. The thesis now presented analyzes the processes of implementation of affirmative action policies at Uneb and the consequent institutionalization of the system of reservation of vacancies for transvestite and transsexual students, showing that this is still an inconclusive process regarding the guarantee not only of access, but especially the permanence. For this, I take as my starting point the transfeminist and black feminist thought, which establish theoretical and paradigmatic connections between feminism, gender studies and transgender movement (JESUS, 2014). The notion of intersectionality, coined by black feminism, will be the analytical tool used to understand the multiple identities and identifications of the subjects, as well as the oppressions that fall on bodies that do not conform to the hegemonic models of race, class, and gender. In this way, the analysis about affirmative action policies for trans students is thought in the light of the notion of intersectionality, since the historically established social conditions require the analysis of power structures that conform the inequalities operated in institutional and cultural fields through the representations, ideology, interpersonal relationships, which operate the exclusion of access of trans people to higher education (COLLINS, BILGE, 2021, CRENSHAW, 1991). For this purpose, different devices were produced to understand and describe the research universe, among them, bibliographic and documentary research, and the systematic literature review (BOTELHO, L. L. R; CUNHA, C. C. de A; MACEDO, M, 2011; SAMPAIO R. F; MANCINI M. C., 2007). In addition to the interviews w ith trans students, entering the 2019 selective processes. The narrative interview was the methodological device adopted to understand the formative experiences and the crossings of affirmative action in the trajectories of trans students (FERREIRA, NACARATO, 2017). I conclude this study by stating that it is necessary to recognize that affirmative action policies are a social right, an achievement of the struggles led by black and trans social movements and that their implementation as a reparatory policy represents a struggle for social and epistemic justice and, therefore, should ensure the promotion of an education for diversity and the creation of a network of protection and confrontation to institutional transphobia that enables their academic permanence.