Banca de DEFESA: VINICIUS ALVES DA SILVA

Apotheotic, historic and chaotic: the fervor of a respectable queer crazy for Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Global South.

Fervo. Fervography. Sexual and Gender Diversity. Gender. Sexuality

The present work had as its theme the fervo. More specifically, to understand, in a deeper and more organic way, how fervo could contribute to the theoretical and political field of Sexual and Gender Diversity. The work is divided into four parts. The first presents the apotheotic construction of the theoretical and political field of Sexual and Gender Diversity as a generational experience, especially from the beginning of the 21st century in Brazil. The second part registers the historical contribution of what I called boiled knowledge, bypassing concepts and presenting the proposed methodology based on fervography (NEVES, 2018) or what is called here a fervographic experience. From field diary records, we systematized the experience developed by the study in Salvador, starting with the creation of the Coletivo Drags da Prevenção, passing through the creation of the Drag Power Movement and reaching the preview of what later became the Fervo2k20 Platform. The third part presents a set of social technologies (ST) that were built in the chaotic period of the covid-19 pandemic, together with the research interlocutors. From these tools (ST) it was possible to collect and systematize data on the situation of artists, production companies and cultural collectives led by women and LGBTQIA+, especially black women, from and/or with a background in the periphery, and build, with them, creative solutions to overcome the vulnerability that this sector was. Collectives created movements, which created a platform, an observatory and carried out a set of cultural projects that allowed many of these artists and collectives to access public resources for the first time - arising, above all, from the Aldir Blanc Act. We present the experience developed both in Salvador and on Boipeba Island, located in the city of Cairu, in the interior of Bahia, deep Brazil, where we carried out a focal action of the Fervo2k20 Platform for 13 months in partnership with Espaço Cultural Dionésia and participated in the creation of local tools such as the Boipeba Artistic Laboratory (LAB). The fourth and last part brings final considerations which fill the concept of fervo, developed by the author since 2015, as well as brings contributions to important concepts in the field of Sexual and Gender Diversity such as identity and diversity, difference and equality, and presents some challenges that fervo points to gender and sexuality studies and struggles in the Global South.