Existing, resisting and r-existing in portraits of me: contributions of the performing arts in confronting LGBTQIAPN+phobic violence in school environments
Anti-LGBTQIAPN+phobic education; LGBTQIAPN+ Knowledge; LGBTQIAPN+ R-existence; Performing Arts; Art Teaching
This thesis reflects on the pedagogical potential of the performing arts in confronting gender and sexual orientation violence directed at the LGBTQIAPN+ community in school environments. I start from the assumption that the performing arts can constitute aesthetic-political territories of existences, resistances and r-existences (PORTO-GONÇALVES, 2002; 2008) that positively make transgressive bodies, cultures and knowledge visible, spreading an anti-LGBTQIAPN+phobic education that affects and transforms schooling spaces that are hostile to this community. The research is self-referential and has as its main empirical contribution the excerpt of experience in teaching, orientation and theatrical direction of creative scenic processes conducted by me with students of the bachelor's and licentiate courses of the Faculdade de Artes Dulcina de Moraes (FADM), located in Brasília (DF), in the period from August 2015 to July 2019. The analyses focus, more specifically, on the process of assembling and presenting the theatrical show O causo de Maria e Etevaldo (Ricardo CRUCCIOLI, 2017). In addition, as part of the methodological procedures, for a reflection on how LGBTQIAPN+phobic violence can be identified and combated in school environments, questionnaires were applied to teacher trainers and course teachers , responsible for and participants, respectively, in training courses that deal with gender diversity and sexual orientation, offered by the Undersecretary for Continuing Education Professionals (EAPE/SEEDF). In summary, I carried out in this methodological path, here named Portraits of me, a triangular analysis that aggregates: a) the auto(hetero)ethnography of my teaching practice and creative processes in performing arts; b) my memories as a homosexual person, artist and teacher; c) the answers to a questionnaire from professional colleagues in SEEDF. The theoretical contribution that I mobilized involves works and thinkers from the field of education, gender studies and queer studies, in a decolonial key.