Among protection, exposure and conditioned admissions: travestilities and sociability spaces

Author(s)

Monzeli, Gustavo Artur ; Ferreira, Vitor Sergio ; Lopes, Roseli Esquerdo

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: CADERNOS DE TERAPIA OCUPACIONAL DA UFSCAR; v. 23, n. 3, p. 12-pg., 2015-01-01.

Abstract

This study aimed to understand, considering the experience of four young people who called themselves "transvestites" at some point during the research, residing in Sao Carlos (SP), the main techniques and strategies used by them for the manipulation of their own characteristics regarding their body, subjectivity and identity, in order to participate in certain spaces of sociability. Their aspirations and ethnographic contributions remain as clearly important methods to provide the demand for answers to questions of this research. This paper considers the multiplicity of ways to construct signs of what is considered feminine in bodies assigned as male. We discuss the strategies used by young transvestites to participate in different contexts such as family, school and prostitution. And in this context of these stories of protections and exposures these different realities are configured as an important issue for occupational therapy, specifically for social occupational therapy. These young transvestites, at different levels of awareness, identify the areas in which they can move more freely and the spaces where they should be more cautious, shaping their body, and subjective identity characteristics. Be accepted in different areas reverberates not "just" the inclusion or participation restriction and exercise of rights and citizenship itself, but especially reverberates in their own subjectivities therefore explain possibilities and impossibilities of "coming and going" in private or public spaces and especially the possibility to exist in these places. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/03162-9 - At home, "na pista", or at school is too much "babado": spaces of sociability of young travestis
• Grantee: Gustavo Artur Monzeli
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• FAPESP's process: 11/03536-3 - At home, "na pista", or at school is too much "babado": spaces of sociability of young travestis
• Grantee: Gustavo Artur Monzeli
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master