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 is a PhD candidate in the Postgraduate Programme in Social Change and Political Participation at Universidade de São Paulo (USP), with a CAPES scholarship. Master of Science. He has a degree in Business Administration, technical training in Performing Arts (Teatro Escola Célia Helena), a specialisation in Image Creation and Fashion Styling (Centro Universitário Senac) and an MA in Textiles and Fashion (USP). He has experience in the area of Arts, with an emphasis on Theatre, and is dedicated to researching themes that link the Arts, the construction of masculinities, gender identities, the artivism of sexual and gender dissidence and art as a means of political expression for the LGBTQI+ community. He is a researcher in the study and research group ECOAR - Studies in Body and Art.

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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/138422

Issue

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

Section

Performance and Gender I

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