Banca de DEFESA: NAIRA DOS SANTOS BONFIM

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STUDENT : NAIRA DOS SANTOS BONFIM
DATE: 28/02/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: NEIM-UFBA
TITLE:

“NOT IN MY HOUSE!”:Negotiations of Performativity of Openly LGBTQIAP+ People in the Cisheteropatriarchal Family

KEY WORDS:

family; LGBTQIAP+; queer theory; performativity; autoethnography

PAGES: 83
BIG AREA: Outra
AREA: Multidisciplinar
SUMMARY:

The family is almost always the first space of contact, socialization, learning and understanding of the culture in which we live. The understanding that circulates in the social imaginary about what a family is, is based on a colonial and cisheteropatriarchal ideal, which organizes the members of these units into hierarchies of power and rigid distribution of binary gender social roles. In a family context based on a cisheteropatriarchal organization, members can be compelled to adapt in order to reproduce the norms demanded by the social environment. This logic affects the experiences of LGBTQIAP+ people who may find ways to perform cisheteronormativity in this family environment, even if this is not their individual understanding of their own gender and sexuality, in an attempt to avoid suffering some kind of oppression. Thinking about LGBTQIAP+ people who have assumed their sexuality and/or gender identity to their primary family and who have remained in their homes, but have not had their gender identity and/or sexuality accepted, I raise some questions: are there implicit or explicit pacts of performativity and expression of gender and sexuality between an LGTBQIAP+ person and the primary family that does not accept their gender identity and/or sexuality? How do these pacts work? Could performing cisheteronormativity in the primary family space be a way of surviving intra-family LGBTQIAPphobia? My research is based on this reflection. Here, I hypothesize that the performative pacts of cisheteronormativity made by openly LGBTQIAP+ people within the nuclear family space are a strategy for surviving intra-family LGBTQIAPphobia, as well as a strategy for trying to ensure that they remain in that nucleus and access not only affection, but also education, safety and other resources. To carry out my research, I established a dialog with theorists Adrienne Rich and Monique Wittig to think about the norms of heterosexuality and intellectuals from queer theory such as Judith Butler, Leandro Colling and Eve Sedgwick to discuss performance, performativity and the closet. As a method, I opted for autoethnography to construct the research data, working from personal diaries, photographs and authorial illustrations during the period from 2012 to 2023, using the lifeline technique to separate the significant events that were part of the data.  Throughout the dissertation I discuss the concept of performative pacts, listing resources that are used to maintain these pacts. I also argue about the duality of living these performative experiences, since the pacts are both an attempt by society to imprison us in the norms of heterosexuality and cisgenderity, and are also shields that we use to escape experiencing violence in our nuclear families. I end with contributions to the discussion about what we can define as a family, given that LGBTQIAP+ people are always putting these definitions into tension.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - ***.145.425-** - LINA MARIA BRANDAO DE ARAS - UFBA
Interna - 2162647 - DARLANE SILVA VIEIRA ANDRADE
Externa à Instituição - ANNI DE NOVAIS CARNEIRO