Cartografias da transmusealidade: processos museológicos em casas de acolhida LGBT no Brasil

Abstract

The dissertation develops a cartography of LGBT Shelter Houses in Brazil and the museological processes existing in these community spaces. Faced with the Brazilian reality marked by exclusions, silencing and invisibility of LGBT memories, bodies and stories in museum spaces, it investigates how LGBT Shelter Houses are configured as resistance to the creation and production of museological imaginaries that transgress the cisheteronormative logic. Therefore, it presents LGBT activism networks and their impact on the configuration of cultural politics, especially in the field of museums and museology. The investigation maps some experiences of the Brazilian trans movement, highlighting the role of trans people in social and collective mobilization initiatives in the construction of spaces to safeguard LGBT bodies and memories, having as case studies the Casa Nem, in Rio de Janeiro, the Casa Chama, in São Paulo, and CasAmor, in Aracaju. The analysis of the museological processes carried out in these spaces contributed to the delineation of the concept of transmuseality, translating museological forms that transcend and transgress the limits imposed by cisheteronormativity by breaking with the museological imaginary that reproduces asymmetric, hierarchical and binary relationships and that oppresses sexualities and identities of gender dissidents of the cisgender and heterosexual matrix.