Sexual and gender dissent, subjectivity and education: tensions and possibilities among university students
Gender; sexuality; subjectivity; education; subjective development
This work addresses subjective productions related to gender and sexuality dissent in the university context. Recent surveys converge in affirming a serious context of violence against the sex-gender diverse population. This context has culminated in numerous problematic developments for the quality of the educational processes of the sex-gender-diverse population at different levels of education, in addition to resulting in the loss of several lives. Given this panorama, it is urgent to develop research that understands in a complex way the processes of suffering that emerge in the experience of this population, so that it is possible to think about educational practices oriented towards subjective development. In this sense, in addition to the importance of thinking about access to universities through inclusion policies for historically violated and excluded populations, it is necessary to develop studies that focus on the processes that relate to the quality of stay of students who experience dissent. sexual and gender issues in the university context. Given this context, based on the Theory of Subjectivity from a cultural-historical, this research has the general objective of understanding individual and social subjective configurations of sexual and gender dissent at the University of Brasília, focusing on the construction of principles and educational strategies that promote subjective development in this context. The research is based on criticism of the processes of normalization, pathologization and fragmentation of human processes, seeking to advance the understanding of the conflicts and possibilities experienced by the sex-gender-diverse population at the university, emphasizing both the institutionalization of cisheteronormative practices that are linked to different forms of suffering, as well as possible individual and social subjective resources generated from the experience of sexual and gender dissent in the university space. To this end, the ConstructiveInterpretative Methodology will be used, supported by the principles of Qualitative Epistemology, which conceives the production of knowledge as a dialogical and constructive-interpretative process, as well as singularity as a legitimate source for the construction of scientific knowledge. The research participants will be University of Brasilia students who experience sexual or gender differences. During the course of the research, a case study will be carried out on the social subjective configuration of gender and sexuality dissent at the University of Brasília, and two individual student case studies will be constructed in-depth. To do this, I will use conversational dynamics from different moments of institutional daily life. Thus, the research seeks to generate new zones of intelligibility regarding sexual and gender dissent, subjectivity and education in the university context.