GENDER AND SEXUALITY DISSIDENCES IN THE UNIVERSITY CONTEXT: SOCIAL SUBJECTIVITY UNDER FOCUS

Abstract

This article is based on the results of a study whose aim was to understand the subjective social processes related to gender and sexuality dissidence in the current university context. Supported by the framework of the Theory of Subjectivity from a cultural-historical perspective, we start with a critique of normalization, pathologization and the fragmentation of human processes in order to show in a complex way the challenges and possibilities that emerge in the university experience of the sex-gender-diverse population. The research was developed using the Constructive-Interpretative Methodology, based on the principles of Qualitative Epistemology, which considers the production of knowledge as a dialogical and constructive-interpretive process, oriented towards legitimizing singularity as its source of production. The fieldwork was carried out over 15 months, through the construction of dialogic actions in partnership with different groups at a public university in Brasilia, Brazil. The results point to tensions between the configuration of cisheteronormative practices, which are linked to various forms of weakening of this population, and the configuration of subjective changes oriented towards the subjective development of this community. The research highlights the importance of creating educational actions and relationships that express dialogical qualities aimed at the emergence of agents and subjects in different university contexts. These educational practices contribute to the tensioning of dominant social subjective configurations, by mobilizing social subjective changes that are alternatives to cisheteronormative crystallizations. It favors the opening up of pathways towards the subjective development of the sex-gender-diverse population.