Frontiers and flows in the academic sphere: Interpellations of bodies that violate hetero-normativity

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the circulation, experienced affect, boundaries and perceived permeability, resistances and negotiations of a transvestite student in the environment of a public university. The theoretical framework is based on gender and sexuality studies, as well as those that analyze processes of subjectivity within urban contexts.  The site of investigation was  at a federal university campus and the Psychology course in which the student is enrolled. Methodologically, this study used a narrative, registered in writing, of the student's daily practices and encounters at the university over a period of one week.  The narrative was analyzed from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis. The results show that in the daily routine at the university, the student faces barriers, and they also reveal the limits of the inhabited spaces, requiring great effort on the part of the student in the struggle for the recognition of rights. In relation to the Psychology course, results show that there is a lack of effective dialogue about questions of gender, and, in some way, the recurrence of traditional theoretical models that undermine the possibility of questioning non-heteronormative experiences