Não se nasce humano, torna-se: entre monstruosidades e desvios de gênero

Abstract

This thesis analyzes, through queer, queer of color, and anticolonial lens, how sexual and gender dissidences have historically been framed as monstrous - a category that operates as a device of social, political, and ontological exclusion. It begins from the understanding that cisheteronormativity imposes barriers to the full recognition of certain bodies’ humanity, producing abjection and violence, while also opening spaces for creative strategies of resistance. The main objective is to understand the ways in which monstrosity is either imposed upon or strategically claimed by such bodies. The specific objectives include examining the identity boundaries of gender and sexuality through lesbians and dykes positionalities; investigating the historical construction of the figure of the monster; discussing the limits of social assimilation; and analyzing desertions and counter-productions of gender that imagine alternative possibilities of life. The methodology combines an interdisciplinary bibliographic review with Jota Mombaça’s submethodology, which incorporates body and writing as locus of knowledge, rejecting neutrality and universalism. The analysis traverses colonial and necropolitical genealogies of monstrosity, its articulations with race, class, gender, and sexuality, and critiques normative forms of inclusion, such as homonormativity and homonationalism (Puar, 2015). It argues that monstrosity may function as a violent mark of exclusion, a strategic choice of resistance, or an ambivalent condition. Finally, it contends that pirraça (Taliboy, 2021), failure, and desertion constitute powerful practices of subversion, capable of destabilizing the boundaries of the human and fostering collectivities beyond neoliberal assimilation.