Transcestrality, Travestiland, Traviarchy:

the stage and gender dissidences in Brazil

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Keywords:

Travestis, Performing Arts, Sociocultural Mediation, Gender Dissidences

Abstract

Transcestrality, Travestiland, Traviarchy: the stage and gender dissidences in Brazil – This article aims to put into historical perspective the relationship between the arts (especially performing arts) and travestilities in Brazil since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on a literature review that included both academic works and non-academic documents, the study identifies three patterns (or paradigms) experienced by travesti artists in what refers to their insertion in society: transcestrality, travestiland, and, more recently, traviarchy. This allows a better interpretation and understanding of the role played by the current generation of these artists: if on the one hand they fuel social change with a work which is both artistic and political, on the other this role can only be understood as the result of a historical process, in which the importance and contribution of artists from the other two paradigms must be also recognized.

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Author Biography

Emerson Meneses, Universidade de São Paulo – USP

Emerson Silva Meneses é doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Mudança Social e Participação Política na Universidade de São Paulo (USP), com bolsa CAPES. Mestre em Ciências. Possui graduação em Administração, formação técnica em Artes Cênicas (Teatro Escola Célia Helena), especialização em Criação de Imagem e Styling de Moda (Centro Universitário Senac) e mestrado em Têxtil e Moda (USP). Tem experiência na área de Artes, com ênfase em Teatro, e se dedica à pesquisa em temas que vinculam as Artes, as construções de masculinidades, as identidades de gênero, aos artivismos das dissidências sexuais e de gênero e a arte como meio de expressão política da comunidade LGBTQI+. É pesquisador do grupo de estudos e pesquisas ECOAR - Estudos em Corpo e Arte. 

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Published

2024-04-29

How to Cite

Meneses, E. (2024). Transcestrality, Travestiland, Traviarchy:: the stage and gender dissidences in Brazil. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 14(2). Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/132188

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2024): Abr./Jun. 2024

Section

Performance and Gender I

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