University Of São Paulo Collection Shows Current Affairs With Feminist And Decolonial Theories
The Contranormative Studies series is available on the USP Open Books Portal . Divided into three volumes, the collection presents gender and sexuality issues as its central theme, as well as pointing out ways to overcome the oppression experienced by those who flee the dominant social norm .
The texts are distributed in three different categories, which interact with each other: “Art at risk – divergent aesthetics”, “Body-territory – divergent borders”, and “Alliance-crowd – divergent subjectivities”. The debates intertwine current themes, such as feminist and decolonial theories, public policies for the transsexual population, queer literature and theater, divergent art and aesthetics, gender technologies, ageism and lesbianism in Brazilian cinema, in addition to the idea of borders and their disruption.
The publications are the result of the 1st Conference on Counter-normative Studies , held last year by the DiverGente study group , coordinated by Tessa Moura Lacerda, a professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) at USP. The group is made up of students and professors from various undergraduate and graduate departments at the University, linked to psychology, human sciences and communication studies.
“It was in this doing together in the classroom, in this doing as a community, that the ‘DiverGente’ community was born, showing how much it is necessary to question oppression, hierarchies and our social forms of domination and marginalization”, states Tessa in the preface of the work.
The collection was supported by the University’s Postgraduate Program in Integration of Latin America (Prolam), in addition to organizers from other public universities in Brazil, such as the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the Federal of Paraná (UFPR).
In this volume, the authors contribute reflections on performance, cinema, poetry, prose, theater, often in relation to Philosophy, creating an interesting dialogue between the various areas. The texts clearly position themselves against a system of norms and standards established by dominant groups.
Topics such as divergent art and aesthetics, invisibility of lesbian film characters, and performance poetry such as slam .
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Divided into 10 chapters, the book contains questions that intertwine some current debates, with a focus on gender and sexuality issues. The book features a variety of approaches to the gender issue that, as they mobilize theories with enormous transformative potential, can open a door of practical change against oppression, standardization and prejudice.