Esta dissertação é uma análise dos novos modelos de organização familiar e da epidemia de AIDS como são apresentados em As Horas, de Michael Cunningham. Para discutir as experiências familiares no romance, as personagens Laura Brown e Clarissa Vaughan foram analisadas em função de suas identidades queer e normativa, respectivamente. No referente à epidemia de AIDS, foi discutida a sua potencialidade metafórica na literatura, principalmente em relação ao personagem Richard Brown. A contextualização da síndrome no cenário norte-americano e seu impacto na comunidade gay foram também examinados. / This thesis is an analysis of new forms of familiar arrangements and the AIDS epidemic as presented in Michael Cunninghams The Hours. In order to discuss familiar experiences in the novel, the characters Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan were analyzed in terms of their queer and normative identities, respectively. In reference to the AIDS epidemic, its metaphorical potentiality in literature was discussed, mainly in relation to the character Richard Brown. The contextualization of the syndrome in the American scenario and its impact over the gay community were also examined.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este trabalho tem como propósito estudar a queerness de relacionamentos entre mulheres heterossexuais e homens gays no romance A Home at the End of the World, de Michael Cunningham, e no seriado de televisão Will & Grace. O objetivo é analisar tais relacionamentos do ponto de vista das personagens femininas principais Clare e Grace, respectivamente , comparando e contrastando os textos literário e televisual. A dissertação fundamenta-se nos conceitos teórico-metodológicos da teoria queer, nos quais se baseia a análise das personagens e de seus relacionamentos. Contudo, à medida que estabelece um diálogo entre um romance e um programa televisual, foi adicionado um capítulo sobre teoria da televisão. Além de fornecer uma visão geral sobre tal teoria, o capítulo mostrou-se relevante na discussão de Will & Grace. Por meio do estudo mais aprofundado da teoria queer percebe-se que queerness, ao invés de uma identidade fixa, pode ser mais bem compreendida como uma atitude de resistência às normas sociais heteropatriarcais. Portanto, apesar das aspirações convencionais de Grace e Clare, ambas agem de forma queer em várias situações, provando que queerness é um posicionamento que todos podem assumir; até mesmo os heterossexuais / The purpose of this work is to study the queerness of relationships between straight women and gay men in Michael Cunninghams novel A Home at the End of the World and in the TV sitcom Will & Grace. The intention is to analyze such relationships from the point-of-view of the main female characters Clare and Grace, respectively , comparing and contrasting the literary and televisual texts. The theoretical-methodological core of this thesis lies on the concepts of queer theory, based on which the characters and their relationships have been analyzed. However, as it establishes a dialog between a literary work and a TV show, a theoretical chapter on television theory has been added. While providing an overview of television theory, this chapter has also been really relevant in the discussion of Will & Grace. Through a deeper study of queer theory, one realizes that queerness, instead of a fixed identity, may be better understood as an attitude of resistance to heteropatriarchal social rules. Therefore, in spite of Graces and Clares conventional aspirations, they both act queerly in several situations, proving that queerness is a positionality which everyone may assume; even straight people

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / As práticas discursivas que constituem e sustentam as concepções de sexo e de sexualidade nas sociedades contemporâneas são fortemente arraigadas no discurso normalizado e normalizador segundo o qual há apenas dois sexos que se evidenciam em corpos masculinos ou femininos, naturalmente distintos biológica e fisionomicamente e reconhecíveis em modos de ser diversos - mas perfeitamente identificáveis com o sexo biológico (nascer com pênis/nascer com vagina). Esse sistema dicotômico afirmou por muitos anos uma concepção inequívoca de o que é e como ser homem ou mulher; restringiu os corpos a uma performance estereotipada de masculinidade e de feminilidade; conformou os discursos sobre gênero e sexo e naturalizou a heterossexualidade. Entretanto, o sistema binário no qual se funda a heterossexualidade encontra fissuras ante as identidades sexuais e de gênero que ora se evidenciam e desestabilizam a (hetero)sexualidade normativa. Sustentadas pela teoria queer e por autores como Judith Butler, Michel Foucault e Beatriz Preciado, minhas discussões nesta tese focalizam as repercussões e marcas dos discursos escolares na produção de corpos, gêneros e sexualidades de lésbicas, gays, bissexuais e transgêneros LGBT. Interessa indagar, a partir das narrativas desses sujeitos, as formas como as sexualidades têm sido trabalhadas como conteúdo escolar e discutir os possíveis efeitos das práticas escolares na constituição das sexualidades LGBT. Como constituir-se como sujeito fora da norma em um espaço-tempo altamente regulado como o currículo escolar? Busco evidenciar que, mesmo às margens dos discursos socialmente legitimados que circulam na escola, cuja pretensão é manter a hegemonia da história universal onde apenas alguns sujeitos são inscritos e reconhecidos como inteligíveis, os sujeitos LGBT produzem suas histórias e criam modos de vida. Minhas contribuições ao debate do tema se referem à possibilidade de desconstrução dos discursos predominantes no espaço-tempo da escola que enfatizam as concepções naturalizadas de sexo, de gênero e de sexualidade. Neste sentido acentuo a necessidade de novas/outras abordagens que incluam todas as sexualidades no espaço de inteligibilidade habitado pela norma heterossexual e apontar indícios de como os discursos predominantes contribuem para a manutenção da heteronormatividade e do heterossexismo. As narrativas dos sujeitos LGBT apontam a necessidade de repensar as práticas escolares, visando desconstruir concepções naturalizadas em torno da vivência da sexualidade e avançar das políticas de tolerância para uma política da diferença na qual a concepção do que é ser humano esteja sempre em aberto. / The discursive practices that constitute and support the concepts of gender and sexuality in contemporary societies are strongly rooted in the discourse and normalizing and normalizer standard. According to this discourse, there are only two sexes that were seen in male or female bodies, of course biological and physiognomically distinct and recognizable in many ways of being different - but clearly identifiable with the biological sex (being born with penis / being born with vagina).This dichotomist system said for many years a clear conception of "what" and "how" a man or woman, has restricted the bodies to a stereotypical performance of masculinity and femininity, according to the discourses on gender and sex, and naturalized heterosexuality. However, the binary system in which heterosexuality is based finds fissures towards sexual and gender identities that are evident now and destabilize the (hetero) sexuality norms. Supported by Queer theory and authors such as Judith Butler, Michel Foucault and Beatriz Preciado, the discussions in this thesis focused on the impact of brands and speeches in the school production of bodies, genders and sexualities of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender - LGBT. The interest was to question from the narratives of these individuals, the ways in which sexualities have been worked as a school subject and discuss the possible effects of school practices in the formation of sexualities LGBT. How to constitute themselves as subjects "outside the norm" in a space-time highly regulated as the school curriculum? Thus, the present study aimed to evidence that even on the banks of socially legitimated discourses circulating in the school, whose intention is to maintain hegemony in world history where only a few subjects are enrolled and recognized as intelligible; LGBT subjects produce their stories and create ways of life. In addition, the intention was to bring contributions to the discussion of the topic related to the possibility of deconstructing the dominant discourses in space-time school that emphasize naturalized conceptions of sex, gender and sexuality. In this regard, stressed the need for new / other approaches that include all sexualities in the space inhabited by the intelligibility of the heterosexual norm, pointing how the evidence of the prevailing discourses contribute to the maintenance of heteronormativity and heterosexism. The narratives of LGBT subjects indicated the need to rethink school practices in order to deconstruct without naturalized conceptions about the experience of sexuality and advance in the policies of tolerance for a politics of difference in which the conception of being human is always open.

abstract: Employing Queer Intersectionality, this study explored how undocuqueer activists made sense of, interacted and worked within the intersection of their LGBTQ and undocumented experience. Participants ascribed three overarching self-meanings: Vulnerability, Complexity, and Resilience. These self-meanings describe the ways participants perceived the interplay of their gender, sexuality and immigration status within the current sociopolitical context of the U.S. Recognizing their vulnerability within a state of illegibility, participants described a sense of exclusion within spaces of belonging, and wariness managing relationships with others; opting for more complex self-definitions, they resisted simplistic conceptions of identity that rendered their social locations invisible (e.g., homonormativity, heteronormativity, DREAMer); and describing themselves as resilient, they described surviving societal as well as familial rejection even when surviving seemed impossible to do so. Interacting and working within the intersection of gender, sexuality and immigration status, participants described identity negotiation and coming out as a form of resistance to institutionalized oppression, and resilience amidst simultaneous anti-immigrant, xenophobic and heterosexist power structures. Participants learned to live in multiple worlds at the same time, and embrace the multiplicity of their undocuqueer identity while seeking to bridge their communities through stories, activism and peer education. This study has implications for further understanding the way that queer politics and identity interact/ relate with various axes of inequality. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2015

abstract: Through ideologies of gender identity, gender as performance, sexuality, and the transgressions thereof, this document serves as a memoir inside of a memoir. I made a pop concert dance piece through a western dance aesthetic with my thesis paper detailing the experience. What did that look like? Throughout this paper, I will explain my thought process, expectations, and experience through writing, which is a more challenging task for me. I am not an academic writer, but rather a rebel with a cause. My cause is to transgress the system in any way I’m able - through words, dance, and expression. As opposed to the artistic dance piece itself, this paper’s purpose is one of both selfish intent and catharsis. Given this, I approached my thesis paper with the same mindset used when developing my piece, in that I rebel fighting against the heteronormative standards that have run my life. I don’t fill this document with regurgitated theory. Moreover, this document morphed into a cathartic platform for me, a purging of counter-hegemonic principals and ideals. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Dance 2017

abstract: "Becoming Travesti: A Partial History of Ontoformation" explores the discursive production of the figure of travesti, defined broadly as male-assigned technologies of feminization, as it circulates within public discourse in Mexico. In other words, through ontoformation this project highlights the historical and sociopolitical associations that congeal, through repetition, to give an identitarian category -travesti- a sense of essence. In order to do so, this project analyzes articles within the mainstream Mexican press, ranging from the colonial period to the present. The first phase of this project involved the compilation and analysis of all twenty-first century articles mentioning travesti in the three newspapers with the widest circulation in Mexico in order to determine the primary constitutive elements of the contemporary figure of travesti. The second phase, in turn, involved a historical exploration of these constitutive elements by way of analyzing mainstream news sources dating back to the colonial period. As such, this project explores the work performed by ontoformative narratives that congeal to give the identitarian category of travesti a sense of essence. Among the narratives explored are the detravestification of homosexuality and continued homosexualization of travesti, the criminality of travesti, the spectacularization of travesti, the disposability of travesti, and the affective registers mobilized by and through travesti. Moreover, this project explores the consolidation of the contemporary figure of travesti in relationship to other identitarian categories of sexual and gendered non-normativity in Mexico, such as the homosexual, the transsexual and the transgénero (transgender), suggesting that travesti has been instrumental in the historical production and sanitization of these categories. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Justice Studies 2017

Esta dissertação é uma análise dos novos modelos de organização familiar e da epidemia de AIDS como são apresentados em As Horas, de Michael Cunningham. Para discutir as experiências familiares no romance, as personagens Laura Brown e Clarissa Vaughan foram analisadas em função de suas identidades queer e normativa, respectivamente. No referente à epidemia de AIDS, foi discutida a sua potencialidade metafórica na literatura, principalmente em relação ao personagem Richard Brown. A contextualização da síndrome no cenário norte-americano e seu impacto na comunidade gay foram também examinados. / This thesis is an analysis of new forms of familiar arrangements and the AIDS epidemic as presented in Michael Cunninghams The Hours. In order to discuss familiar experiences in the novel, the characters Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan were analyzed in terms of their queer and normative identities, respectively. In reference to the AIDS epidemic, its metaphorical potentiality in literature was discussed, mainly in relation to the character Richard Brown. The contextualization of the syndrome in the American scenario and its impact over the gay community were also examined.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este trabalho tem como propósito estudar a queerness de relacionamentos entre mulheres heterossexuais e homens gays no romance A Home at the End of the World, de Michael Cunningham, e no seriado de televisão Will & Grace. O objetivo é analisar tais relacionamentos do ponto de vista das personagens femininas principais Clare e Grace, respectivamente , comparando e contrastando os textos literário e televisual. A dissertação fundamenta-se nos conceitos teórico-metodológicos da teoria queer, nos quais se baseia a análise das personagens e de seus relacionamentos. Contudo, à medida que estabelece um diálogo entre um romance e um programa televisual, foi adicionado um capítulo sobre teoria da televisão. Além de fornecer uma visão geral sobre tal teoria, o capítulo mostrou-se relevante na discussão de Will & Grace. Por meio do estudo mais aprofundado da teoria queer percebe-se que queerness, ao invés de uma identidade fixa, pode ser mais bem compreendida como uma atitude de resistência às normas sociais heteropatriarcais. Portanto, apesar das aspirações convencionais de Grace e Clare, ambas agem de forma queer em várias situações, provando que queerness é um posicionamento que todos podem assumir; até mesmo os heterossexuais / The purpose of this work is to study the queerness of relationships between straight women and gay men in Michael Cunninghams novel A Home at the End of the World and in the TV sitcom Will & Grace. The intention is to analyze such relationships from the point-of-view of the main female characters Clare and Grace, respectively , comparing and contrasting the literary and televisual texts. The theoretical-methodological core of this thesis lies on the concepts of queer theory, based on which the characters and their relationships have been analyzed. However, as it establishes a dialog between a literary work and a TV show, a theoretical chapter on television theory has been added. While providing an overview of television theory, this chapter has also been really relevant in the discussion of Will & Grace. Through a deeper study of queer theory, one realizes that queerness, instead of a fixed identity, may be better understood as an attitude of resistance to heteropatriarchal social rules. Therefore, in spite of Graces and Clares conventional aspirations, they both act queerly in several situations, proving that queerness is a positionality which everyone may assume; even straight people

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / As práticas discursivas que constituem e sustentam as concepções de sexo e de sexualidade nas sociedades contemporâneas são fortemente arraigadas no discurso normalizado e normalizador segundo o qual há apenas dois sexos que se evidenciam em corpos masculinos ou femininos, naturalmente distintos biológica e fisionomicamente e reconhecíveis em modos de ser diversos - mas perfeitamente identificáveis com o sexo biológico (nascer com pênis/nascer com vagina). Esse sistema dicotômico afirmou por muitos anos uma concepção inequívoca de o que é e como ser homem ou mulher; restringiu os corpos a uma performance estereotipada de masculinidade e de feminilidade; conformou os discursos sobre gênero e sexo e naturalizou a heterossexualidade. Entretanto, o sistema binário no qual se funda a heterossexualidade encontra fissuras ante as identidades sexuais e de gênero que ora se evidenciam e desestabilizam a (hetero)sexualidade normativa. Sustentadas pela teoria queer e por autores como Judith Butler, Michel Foucault e Beatriz Preciado, minhas discussões nesta tese focalizam as repercussões e marcas dos discursos escolares na produção de corpos, gêneros e sexualidades de lésbicas, gays, bissexuais e transgêneros LGBT. Interessa indagar, a partir das narrativas desses sujeitos, as formas como as sexualidades têm sido trabalhadas como conteúdo escolar e discutir os possíveis efeitos das práticas escolares na constituição das sexualidades LGBT. Como constituir-se como sujeito fora da norma em um espaço-tempo altamente regulado como o currículo escolar? Busco evidenciar que, mesmo às margens dos discursos socialmente legitimados que circulam na escola, cuja pretensão é manter a hegemonia da história universal onde apenas alguns sujeitos são inscritos e reconhecidos como inteligíveis, os sujeitos LGBT produzem suas histórias e criam modos de vida. Minhas contribuições ao debate do tema se referem à possibilidade de desconstrução dos discursos predominantes no espaço-tempo da escola que enfatizam as concepções naturalizadas de sexo, de gênero e de sexualidade. Neste sentido acentuo a necessidade de novas/outras abordagens que incluam todas as sexualidades no espaço de inteligibilidade habitado pela norma heterossexual e apontar indícios de como os discursos predominantes contribuem para a manutenção da heteronormatividade e do heterossexismo. As narrativas dos sujeitos LGBT apontam a necessidade de repensar as práticas escolares, visando desconstruir concepções naturalizadas em torno da vivência da sexualidade e avançar das políticas de tolerância para uma política da diferença na qual a concepção do que é ser humano esteja sempre em aberto. / The discursive practices that constitute and support the concepts of gender and sexuality in contemporary societies are strongly rooted in the discourse and normalizing and normalizer standard. According to this discourse, there are only two sexes that were seen in male or female bodies, of course biological and physiognomically distinct and recognizable in many ways of being different - but clearly identifiable with the biological sex (being born with penis / being born with vagina).This dichotomist system said for many years a clear conception of "what" and "how" a man or woman, has restricted the bodies to a stereotypical performance of masculinity and femininity, according to the discourses on gender and sex, and naturalized heterosexuality. However, the binary system in which heterosexuality is based finds fissures towards sexual and gender identities that are evident now and destabilize the (hetero) sexuality norms. Supported by Queer theory and authors such as Judith Butler, Michel Foucault and Beatriz Preciado, the discussions in this thesis focused on the impact of brands and speeches in the school production of bodies, genders and sexualities of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender - LGBT. The interest was to question from the narratives of these individuals, the ways in which sexualities have been worked as a school subject and discuss the possible effects of school practices in the formation of sexualities LGBT. How to constitute themselves as subjects "outside the norm" in a space-time highly regulated as the school curriculum? Thus, the present study aimed to evidence that even on the banks of socially legitimated discourses circulating in the school, whose intention is to maintain hegemony in world history where only a few subjects are enrolled and recognized as intelligible; LGBT subjects produce their stories and create ways of life. In addition, the intention was to bring contributions to the discussion of the topic related to the possibility of deconstructing the dominant discourses in space-time school that emphasize naturalized conceptions of sex, gender and sexuality. In this regard, stressed the need for new / other approaches that include all sexualities in the space inhabited by the intelligibility of the heterosexual norm, pointing how the evidence of the prevailing discourses contribute to the maintenance of heteronormativity and heterosexism. The narratives of LGBT subjects indicated the need to rethink school practices in order to deconstruct without naturalized conceptions about the experience of sexuality and advance in the policies of tolerance for a politics of difference in which the conception of being human is always open.

The aim of this paper is to uncover how travestis are being represented in one of Brazil’s biggest online journals; Jornal O Globo. O Globo’s words reach millions everyday and are therefore a major discursive stakeholder. I have used Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Queer theory to expose the main existing discourses in Jornal O Globo that relates to travestis. The study revealed how O Globo uses an active/passive discourse that limits the performativity of travestis; one expression of this discourse was the modification of the Portuguese language according to other rules than those of grammar. The performativity of travestis that linguisticly requests the usage of female pronouns was to a greater extent respected by journalists when the travesti acted passive/feminine as in becoming victim of unprovoked violence, told a story of financial or artisitic success, or if LGBT activists participated in the news coverage. In summary the active/passive discourse epitomizes a conventional Brazilian gender binarism that consists of two genders that is man and non-man. From a queer theoretical perspective I argue that O Globo’s representations of travestis continuously hinder the performativity of these individuals through their linguistic and discursive practice, which contributes to societal ostracism toward travestis.