Gêneros, sexualidades e educação em memórias de infância : corpos que existem e resistem

Abstract

Recently, the political rise of moralistic and conservative discourses that use the “defense of childhood innocence” as an electoral and political motto has become commonplace on the public scene. Specifically, in Brazil, these conservative movements have gained strength and have had direct repercussions in education, especially in the fight Against the so-called gender ideology in schools. Tragets of censorship, the words “gender’ and “sexual orientation” were removed from the National Education Plan, as well as from many educational plans in the spheres of states and municipalities. Considering this political and educational scenario, this research, which belongs to the Postgraduate Program in Education, at the federal University of Mato Grosso, from the Rondonópolis Campus, and to the research line “Childhood, Youth and Contemporany Culture: rights, policies and diversity”, aims to problematize the discourse os innocence linked to childhood and the binarism of gender as structuring the discirsive matrix of the ideal-typical child and the telos of human life, discussing the productions of suffering and violence due to a normative ideal to exist. The theoretical references that support the research are given in the dialogues whith the following authors: Judith Butler, René Schérer, Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault. The methodological strategy consisted of a public call in virtual media (Instagran, Whatsapp, Facebook, e-mail0, animed at university, undergraduate and graduate students from the Rondonópolis Campus of the Federal University of Mato Grosso. An invitation to share experiences of children’s bodies, marked by resistance to the frame of heteronormative genres, was published in these media, through a written text sent by a Google From form. Based on my own history and the memories of the participants, we exposed gender educational processes that presented the body as a prominent object of control. The docile child’s body was repressed and educated in both school and Family memories. Working with narratives of real childhoods and being able to narrate my own story, made it possible for this research to move away from the neutral discourse od Science and be constructed as a writing that calues experience, orality, memory and subjectivity. This research is configured as a way of denouncing child violence and suffering that are rejected from Family conversations, psychocology books, TV, programs, politics, classrooms, literature, physical education classes, games the street, the football game, etc.