Vivências de estudantes trans* na Universidade Federal do Maranhão

Abstract

The thesis has as its central axis to problematize the experiences of trans* students at the Federal University of Maranhão, once the entrance and the permanency of trans* People in public universities call us to intend Brazilian Education, our educational practice, our courseware, our relationship with identities, problematic that constitute the process of construction of subjects in the midst of knowledge. As a result of teaching experiences at this university, the research arise from the inquietations produced with statements of trans* people that attended the Didática I and II subjects. The dialogues of investigation were constructed on interlocution with poststructuralist perspectives of gender relations, sexualities and education, with the foucauldian studies and also the productions of brazilian trans* people. The methodological strategy utilized in the research was a narrative interview, considering the analysis of discourse on foucauldian inspiration. They argued the processes of constitution subjects and the ways of subjectivation that crossed through people who participated in the research. With that, were narrated agreements and mismatches, discoveries and challenges that, considering certain contexts and historical times, expressed the experiences of trans* people with their relationship with the university. Questions as the fight for social name, experiences with the use of bathroom, questions about the silencing of trans* people on CVs, experiences with the passability and with the transphobia were central elements from the narratives that conducted to problematize modes of constitution of the people who participated in the research. Although the experiences of trans* people approach in many aspects, arguments in which they constructed different modes of being, of act, to position themselves in the world and produce heterogeneous and singular paths.