The Loneliness of Trans, Black and Peripheral Women: An (auto) ethnography about socio-affective relations in a cysheteropatriarchal society

Loneliness. Trans Woman. Trans and transvestite autographs. Gender identities. Sexualities. Race.

The research intends to understand the relationships built in the lives of trans, black and peripheral Women, through an analysis of their experiences, considering their trajectory from childhood to adulthood. In an interdisciplinary perspective that intends to dialogue with authors from the social sciences and the psi sciences, it seeks to understand the processes of socialization and affectivity involved in the paths of their social relations, and that shape their individual and group identities. The theoretical scope of the work is in the field of gender and sexuality studies, with special attention to trans and transvestite studies, also considering the intersectionality of race and class, among other social markers of the differences that outline the position of Trans Women considered in search. My study seeks to understand how the process of loneliness occurs. Does being trans make solitude specific or different? Is loneliness something structured in the lives of Trans Women or part of something intersubjective? Individual? Being structural, does it come to be perceived and experienced in the same way in the lives of trans, black and peripheral Women, or is loneliness, even in the lives of these Women, read and experienced differently for each of them? To this end, I adopt a qualitative research methodology, which involves, in addition to semi-structured interviews, data that come from ethnographic and auto-ethnographic observations, and which considers the author's own place as a trans, black and peripheral Woman.