Travessias (Dec 2017)

Minorities, violences, rights: notes for thinking the respect in gender and sexuality dissent.

  • Carlos Henrique Lucas Lima

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 3
pp. 39 – 49

Abstract

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Inspired by the discussions I have conducted in my undergraduate classes and by two essays I have published on high impact social media, this text is intended to discuss the legitimacy of violence committed by gender and sexuality minorities as an often desperate act of responding to successive Injuries, which, as I understand it, injure these populations as if they were dead. In the two essays mentioned, I posed this question in the following way: would violence be a legitimate way of coping with LGBTphobia and other forms of production of subaltern identities? This text, therefore, an academic production written quite freely and essays, will make these problematisations, and, schematically, propose some signs that I consider essential for respect for difference, as well as for LGBT populations to be fully included in the community of rights, with a view, for Of this text, the scenario of the Brazilian University.

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