Dykes: political-affective narratives of border-bodies in the city

narrativas político-afetivas de corpos-fronteira na cidade

Abstract

Our research aimed to map dyke experiences in the city. This study is located in the gender and intersectionality areas of study.We wanted to get to know how the dyke-bodies were and are constituted amidst institucional processes. The data were produced and analyzed through the cartographic method of research, using a notebook that circulated (virtually) among the five participants. When it comes to theoretical-analytic composition, we used Judith Butler's concepts, mainly: precarity, alliance and performativity; the concept of “encounter” as what produced the narratives of participants; and the notion of city as existential territory. The analysis lines were named as: It was difficult to write, I had to connect myself with K. from the 90’s; The one who asks for attention to these words is not a woman, but a dyke; I learned from my grandfather that saliva is more powerful than gunpowder; The body is the city: it changes but it remains, even with all the change and For a dyke-cartographic ethos of listening conduction. We came across, in our work, with plural ways of dyke-bodies experiencing cities, through accompaniment of processes, performed from writing.