Pessoas trans e a contextualização masculina: a construção das transmasculinidades na década de 1970 e 1980, pelas lentes de João Nery e Anderson Herzer

Abstract

The research aims to reflect on the process of construction of the transmasculine identities of João Nery and Anderson Herzer in Brazil, between the 1970s and 1980s. This problematization is based on the memories narrated in the work “Erro de Pessoa: Joana ou João?” (1984) and “Viagem Solitária” (2019), as well as those narrated in “A queda para o alto” (1978). The specific objective is to analyze how these trans experiences developed in their times, mapping how subjective strategies linked to gender stereotypes were mobilized by the two research objects, to survive as a transmasculine person, at a time when it was impractical to survive that way. Together with the fact that the effects of male domination ended up influencing the constitution of their identity experiences, in this way, if on the one hand they were considered “deviant”, on the other, paradoxically, they reaffirmed the expression of the masculine gender. The research method of discourse analysis was used, as proposed by Michel Foucault (1987), which helped when investigating the autobiographical writing, a denunciatory writing, which reveals the power mechanisms that are still so present in our society over those who are stigmatized and deviate from the imposed “order”.

trans men