A "imundícia tá de calcinha”: linchamento de travesti Dandara na periferia de Fortaleza CE, Brasil

Abstract

This article analyzes the case of lynching followed by the death of Dandara Ketlely, a transvestite woman from Ceará, who renamed herself by the social name in sharing the reference of Dandara, a black quilombola leadership in the struggle for the liberation from slavery. In addition, both share another interesting aspect around Palmares, since the first Dandara in history fought in the best known quilombo in our national territory, while the second lived in the region entitled by the same name located on the outskirts of Fortaleza. The lynching case that occurred in 2017, which according to research on the violation of human rights, transsexuality and the LGBTTTAI +++ community, was the most violent against these populations in recent years in Brazil. In order to carry out such a study, journalistic material available in the online environment was used, as well as biographical reports about the victim, as well as audiovisual material that they recorded of their martyrdom, and served as resources for building a collection on the case of this analysis. Thus, the central objective focused on the discussion around the motivation of lynching that resulted in the death of a trans woman due to gender violence against women and members of this community in question. This article covers a brief theoretical and bibliographical survey on lynching in Brazil, as well as an analysis of the political situation that precedes 2017, based on the political framework of the coup that took place in 2016 against the democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff. This context was marked by the exponential increase in conservatism and hate speech, in addition to attacks on the human rights of power minorities. Thus, Dandara's life is reported, from his trajectory of gender identity construction, to the description and analysis of his martyrdom, and the legal ramifications of the trial of his executioners, in this case of transfeminicide.