A vida presta? Mulheres transexuais e suas tessituras por uma vida melhor

Abstract

This thesis seeks to understand the paths followed by trans women in the city of Salvador in the construction of a better life. Through the analysis of their experiences and interactions, it traces the traces of these women, observing four main elements of suffering in their experiences and how they have sought to weave new paths. Through ethnography and semi-structured interviews, the study examines: 1) the implications with the body, focusing on the process of constructing a body that allows for a fuller life; 2) the creation of family spaces that are possible to exist; 3) the development of affective possibilities that break with the heteronormative structure that placed them in spaces of limited affective privileges; and 4) the barriers in the job market and the social difficulties arising from this. Furthermore, the research also analyzed the political and social context in which these issues occurred, describing the human and non-human actors involved in the interactions and the results of these disputed dynamics. The conclusion reached is that the production of a better life is not reduced to a fixed goal, but to a field of constant experimentation. Between ruptures and continuities, challenges and inventions, it is a movement that continuously reinvents itself, responding to the conditions of the present and projecting new possibilities for what is yet to come.