“Ninguém nasce pra sobreviver, a gente nasce pra viver”: de estereótipos estigmatizantes para o “eu travesti, mulher transexual”.

Abstract

This dissertation presents a parallel/confrontation between the news reproduced by Jornal da Paraíba about transvestite people in the 1990s, pointing them as “prostitutes”, “criminals” and “aidética”, and the places of speech of transvestites and transgender women to day. That is, we intend to come and go time tracing similarities and divergences, continuities and discontinuities between the past and the present. From a total of eight carefully chosen articles and interviews with collaborators residing in the cities of João Pessoa, Campina Grande and Bayeux (which allows us to conclude that the spatial clipping of the research in question turns to the territory of Paraíba), we seek to understand the strategic “tidy” ingrained in the discursive order in exercise and the consequences of these in the lives of Trans people. To do so, we Will appropriate the methodology of discourse analysis based on the ideas prosed by Michel Foucault (1996). Because it is a research that unites printed and oral sources (the latter focused on the thematic oral history), we Will prioritize the use of concepts and categories that are important dear to discussion. Intinding to go deeper into these issues, we Will dialogue whit transvestites and transgender women, such as Moira (2017 – 2018), Favero (2020), Marilac (2020), Oliveira (2020), Odara (2020) and Nascimento (2021), in addition to two o four interviewed. In addition, we will also rely on authors such as Butler (2016), Bento (2017), Ribeiro (2019), Mbembe (2016); among others.