O que restou dos nossos amores? Da reivindicação de determinados corpos à política dos afetos

Abstract

The book presented ("What remains of our loves? from the claim of certain bodies to the politics of affections"), that contains articles written by brazilian researchers and one foreigner researcher, will demonstrate how the status quo, anchored to a cis-heteropatriarchal, racial, classist, etc., from different societies around the world, perceives, understands and acts in relation to certain bodies. These, for reasons of gender/dissident orientation, race and class, do not have their rights guaranteed by the State and/other institutions, therefore they become dissident subjects, i.e., those who cannot circulate democratically in public spaces, because when they do, they are harassed, insulted, raped, and, many of them, lethally eliminated. The researchers proposed, in collusion and based on each of the texts, to think about the politics of affections, not in order to demand them, but to claim protective policies in the sense of asserting the rights that are guaranteed to the human person. In this sense, the politics of affections is a summons. An urgent demand. A way of seeking to repair structures that erroneously hierarchize certain subjects whose social status, for reasons of race, social class, gender, sexuality, is placed on a second-category level, insignificant or corresponding to abjection.