Vai ter ChanacomChana, sim!: construção de um grupo lesbiano feminista em São Paulo na década de 1980.

Abstract

The problematic involving the lesbianity in History is markedly liked to its violent invisibility, this characteristic causing social, political and historiographic consequences. Discussions about female homosexuality, for having racist, sexist and classist bases, are very silente, but it is worth noting that they are never silent. In this way, we seek to undestand the trajectory of the brazilian lesbian movement, using the history of Feminist Lesbian Action Group (FLAG 19811988), from São Paulo, and the thirteen editions of Newspapper and Bulletin ChanacomChana (19811987), main file for this research. The periodical was a space and agent of resistance, which questioned patriarchal sexist domination, the binary patterns of female and male, markedly heterosexual, as well as criticizing the white and heterosexist feminist movement, besides having discussed famele and lesbian health and sexuality. The general objective of our research is to reflect how the lesbians of the FLAG, when they assumed themselves politically as lesbians, inscribed in their speeches, mainly mapped by ChanacomChana, a meaning of lesbian identity different from the stigmatized view that linked these identities to crime or desease. In addition to this, we built three specifics objectives, which articulated, guided our dissertation production. They are: Understanding the beginning of the lesbian and feminist movement; Discuss the relationship between the feminist and homossexual movement with the lesbian movement, pointing out the frictions and similarities; Discussing lesbian sexuality and health. We adopted the methodology of discourse analysis, based on Michel Foucault reflections on the concept of discourse, for the analysis of all editions of ChanacomChana, as well as other periodicals that were used. For the operationalization of the research, we used theoretical and methodological dialogues provided by Stuart Hall (2006), Patrícia Lessa (2007), Tânia NavarroSwain (2004), Monique Wittig (1980; 2006), Adrienne Rich (2010), Michel Foucault (1996; 1978; 1987; 1999), Kimberlé Crenshaw (2002), Audre Lorde (2020), among many other authors who served to base this research.