Experiência homossexual no contexto escolar

Abstract

In this article, we start discussing a letter from a teenage student to her Science teacher, attributing to this relation and to the school meanings pervaded by knowledge/power. This letter invites us to think how we are constructed as subjects of desire and how we activate knowledge in order to produce the knowledge about ourselves, taking ourselves as an object of investigation. In this way, the focal question of this article is what makes subjects, subjects of a specific sexuality, what makes a homosexual subject. This is a contemporary question, one that starts at the present in order to question the idea of the homosexual experience as a tense encounter between truth, power and subjectivities, a tension that makes us recognize ourselves as sexual subjects.