Corpos e experiências lésbicas importam? Para quem?

A rede lésbi brasil diálogos entre ativismo e academia

Abstract

This article seeks to understand, from a Foucauldian and gender studies perspective, the power relations that produce the invisibility of experiences, bodies, and practices related to lesbianities in Brazil. Even with several academic research spheres and considering the trajectories of lesbian activists across the country, such experiences, bodies, and practices remain invisible. This analysis questions whether such relations are being produced through discourses that intersect sexism and misogyny, among other social diseases, by electing as targets bodies and experiences that dare to distance themselves from the norms put into operation by compulsory heterosexuality. It also seeks to think on the ways in which lesbian experiences are often sabotaged by the LGBT social movement itself and by other movements that contribute to the erasure of these bodies and practices, placing them as less important. Do lesbian bodies and experiences matter? For whom? Based on these reflections, this work also investigates the articulation of Rede Nacional de Ativistas e Pesquisadoras Lésbicas e de Mulheres Bissexuais – Rede LésBi Brasil, as a strategy of resistance to the fierce times of obscurantism in Brazil since the 2018 presidential elections.