From the square to the stages: transits and networks of young drag queens in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

• Grant number: 15/00640-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: May 01, 2015
• End date: November 01, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Urban Anthropology
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Isadora Lins França
• Grantee: Rubens Mascarenhas Neto
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/25571-6 - Mothers, sisters, daughters and queens: family, kinship and its meanings among drag queens, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

The research propose is focused on the analysis of transits made by Campinas' periphery youngsters that impersonate and aspire a drag queen career, presenting in nightclubs, contests and LGBT parades in Campinas and other cities. The observations indicate that a good number of these youngsters come from underprivileged backgrounds and the majority of them consider themselves black. The methodology here is fundamentally ethnographic, combined with deep interviews and participant observation. In doing so, by mapping the networks and transits of these drag queens, I intend to look to their primary gender experimentations in the Bento Quirino Square, place of young LGBT nightlife, passing through the first performances, with special attention to the Padre Anchieta's new talents annual contest - organized by and placed in the Padre Anchieta Community (located in the Nova Aparecida district, in Campinas) -, to, finally, the local and regional nightclubs and parades presentations. I intend to understand, by considering the articulation of social markers of difference on my approach of these transits, how the drag queens in question compose their style and how their careers are constituted. Nevertheless, I seek to apprehend how, in this process, spatial displacements are related to the production of imagined places and to certain contexts of exercising their agency. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MASCARENHAS NETO, Rubens. From square to stages: transits and networks of young drag queens in Campinas-SP, Brazil. 2018. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.