PERCORRENDO CORPOS-TERRITÓRIOS: UMA ETNOGRAFIA SOBRE SOCIABILIDADES TRANS NA CIDADE DE CAMPO GRANDE – MS

Abstract

This research ponders the sociability of travestis and transgender people from/in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul. Based on the ethnographic perspective, this work pursues the comprehension of which elements drive the subjects toward their self-development progress. Within this reflexive-analytical process, the concept of agência provides comprehension of the complexity surrounding social conditions associated with the subjects’ organization and their agreements, as well as the affection and desires which permeate and enact them. It is argued the assertion of reality, legitimacy and representativity as an expression of normativity. This research aims the possibility of new facets around aspects insufficiently considered, tending only towards gender confirmation surgeries and social exclusion mechanisms. In conclusion, it demonstrates the state of desire and caring, the condition of the support network covering transgender people as well as the normativity reproduced and subverted by them.