Eu sou a bixa que vos fala! Diálogos e devaneios sobre gêneros, sexualidades e outras formações possíveis

Abstract

This dissertation is part of the Graduate Program in Education at the University of Caxias do Sul, within the Research Line History and Philosophy of Education and the Research Group Education, Philosophy, and Multiplicity in Contemporaneity. It addresses issues related to gender, sexuality, and their implications for human formation. The central aim of this study is to investigate how the concepts of the abnormal, the abject, the monster, and the devil operate as theoretical devices to problematize human formation beyond a heterocisgender framework. This inquiry is developed as a theoretical investigation in the field of Philosophy of Education, structureda round two foundational assumptions and three complementary conceptual movements. The first assumption concerns the persistence of a conception of human formation historically constituted as heterocisnormative. This conception, deeply embedded in Western thought, has significantly contributed to the production of the abnormal (Foucault, 2010), the abject (Butler, 2023), the monster (Preciado, 2022), and the devil (Oliveira, 2020) in relation to gender and sexuality. The second assumption asserts that there is no inherent nature in gender and sexuality; rather, what exists are processes of naturalization of heterocisgender norms. This understanding is grounded in the theoretical contributions of Preciado (2022a; 2022b), Foucault (2010), Butler (2019; 2022; 2023), and Oliveira (2020). Based on these assumptions, the investigation unfolds through three interconnected conceptual movements. The first examines the concept of the abnormal, as proposed by Michel Foucault (2010). The second explores how this concept articulates with the abject (Butler, 2023), the monster (Preciado, 2022), and the devil (Oliveira, 2020). The third movement advances toward the idea of denaturalizing genders and sexualities, proposing pathways to challenge heterocisgenderity as a social norm and to imagine alternative narratives that foster non-heterocisnormative forms of human formation. Drawing on theoretical research in the works of Michel Foucault (1972, 1986, 1987, 1999, 2006, 2010, 2021a-d, 2025), Judith Butler (2018a-b, 2019a-b, 2022-2024), Paul B. Preciado (2011, 2018, 2020a-b, 2022a-b, 2023), Megg Rayara Gomes de Oliveira (2018-2023), and other scholars in gender and sexuality studies, this dissertation is organized into three parts. The first, "Notes on the queer who wants to speak," comprises Chapters 1 (Initial Considerations) and 2 (On the constitution of gender and sexuality abnormals). The second, "Dialogues and Reveries," includes Chapters 3 (Dialogues with Foucault and Butler), 4 (Dialogues with Foucault and Preciado), and 5 (Dialogues with Foucault and Oliveira). The third, "Other Possible Formations" Resistances," comprises Chapters 6 (Toward Other Possible Formative Projects) and 7 (A Disorder in Discourse). [resumo fornecido pelo autor]