"The Law Found on the Street: The ghetto's fight for the densification of recognition".
The Law Found on the Street; biopotency; bitizenship; transvestigênere; fight for recognition.
The present work deals with the case study proposed from the political-perfomatic action carriedout by the transvestigenre activist Indianarae Siqueira that took place in the 2011 Marcha das Vadias in thecity of Rio de Janeiro - RJ. The theoretical framework for this analysis is based on the critical fortune of The Law Found on the Street project, which offers support tools for the realization of full recognitions andemancipations of collective subjects based on its epistemic and theoretical assumptions. That adds topractical assistance to the concepts brought by Axel Honneth's Theory of Recognition, with special interestin the spheres of law and solidarity. In this study, the term ghetto territorializes the perspective ofLGBTQIA+ people within the metaphorical proposal of the “street”, which The Law Found on the Streetoffers when it democratizes, pluralizes and emancipates political, public and collective spaces. This actionmeans a territory of emerging “quilombo-queer” alliances that generate biopowers. In that regard,Indianarae Siqueira's action is surgical. It reveals how these spaces in addition to spatial segregation cangenerate biopowers that destabilize the binary and cisnormative status quo, enunciators of new andemancipatory rights. Some important achievements gave rise to an effect, that shows itself illusory. From aformal perspective the feeling is that there would no longer exist a motivation to fight for. The truth is thatthere is still much to fight for in a context of permanent dispute and tension around the construction and densification of LGBTQIA+ recognition. The general objective of this research is to analyze the action ofpolitical-performatic resistance practiced by a body that is not subjected to binary and cisnormative devicesand their reverberations. If and how the Law was born in the ghetto can be an instrument of struggle andemancipation of collective biopowers capable of proposing densifying perspectives of the right torecognition of LGBTQIA+ people. Due to the challenges posed by the pandemic, the thematic andmethodological approaches used in this research had to be remodeled and for that, the extended casemethod proposed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos was used. As it is an action of extreme complexity anduniqueness, it was possible to analyze it in depth. This method was activated through techniques ofsystematic observation, semi-structured interviews, document analysis, bibliographies and in-depthinterviews.