“There is a difference between being abandoned... and being forgotten”: journeys about the living conditions of transvestites/sex workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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DOI:

10.48074/aceno.v11i25.16305

Abstract

In this article, we discuss the existence of a trans necropolitics and the social impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on transvestites/sex workers in the city of Barra do Garças - MT. A brief historical account of the construction of the research field demonstrates the conditions of these workers' work activities and then we discuss gender identities and transsexualities in their contexts of transgressions. From this, we consider the vulnerabilities heightened by the emergence of the pandemic, as they are linked by power structures and social inequities that advance the processes of annihilation of bodies that “don't matter”.

Author Biographies

Luís Antonio Bitante Fernandes, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

Graduado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP (1993), Mestrado em Ciências Sociais pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC/SP (2005) e Doutorado em Sociologia pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - UNESP/FCL - Ar. (2011). Professor Associado II, na Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso – UFMT, cadastrado ao Programa de Pós Graduação em Sociologia - ICHS/UFMT/Cuiabá. Coordeno o Núcleo de Pesquisa Libertas, o grupo de pesquisa em Gênero, Identidade e Sexualidade – GIS e o Laboratório de Antropologia e Sociologia - LABAS; Membro da Rede de Frente: Rede de Enfrentamento à Violência contra as Mulheres; Membro da Rede de Pesquisa, Ensino e Extensão em Educação nas regiões Centro-Oeste e Norte do Brasil e na América Latina/RECONAL-Edu; No ensino atuo na área de Ciências Sociais, com ênfase em Sociologia e Antropologia e Metodologia da Pesquisa; na pesquisa atuo com os seguintes temas: gênero, identidades, sexualidades,decolonialidade, masculinidades, feminilidades e travestilidades, com intersecções no campo da saúde, educação, violência de gênero e direitos humanos; na extensão desenvolve ações envolvendo relação gênero, sexualidade e práticas educativas.

Carlos Eduardo Henning, Universidade Federal de Goias

Carlos Eduardo Henning is Adjunct Professor (Class C, Level 4) of Anthropology at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG). At this institution he works in the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS), in the Postgraduate Program in Sociology and in the Faculty of Social Sciences (FCS). He was coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at UFG (2021-2022). He was coordinator of the Degree in Social Sciences at FCS / UFG (2016-2018). He was also coordinator of the Anthropology area (equivalent to head of department) at FCS / UFG (2014-2016). He was general coordinator of NEPEV-Center for Teaching, Research and Extension in Aging at UFG (2021-2022). He is a researcher and current coordinator of the LEX-Laboratory of Ethnographic Experimentations and Social Markers of Differences, founded in 2022. He was a member of the Ser-Tão-Center for Teaching, Extension and Research in Gender and Sexuality at FCS / UFG (2014-2022) . He completed postdoctoral periods at the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at USP (2014 and 2018-2019) and at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York (2019). PhD in Social Anthropology from UNICAMP (2014). Master in Social Anthropology from UFSC (2008). He was a "visiting scholar" during his doctoral internship at the University of California Santa Cruz (2011-2012). He has experience in the area of Anthropology, with an emphasis on Urban Anthropology, Anthropology of Gender Relations and Sexuality, Anthropology of the Course of Life and Old Age. His research addresses topics such as: gender, sexuality, homoeroticism, intergenerational relationships, aging, middle age, old age, sociability, territorialities, social appropriations of space and social markers of differences. He was deputy coordinator of the Gender and Sexuality Committee of the ABA-Brazilian Anthropology Association (2019-2020 Management). His thesis "Paizões, Uncles, Aunts and Cacuras: aging, middle age, old age and male homoeroticism in the city of São Paulo" was nominated by PPGAS/Unicamp for the ANPOCS award for best thesis in 2015. His article "Is Old Age Always Already Heterosexual and Cisgender? The LGBT Gerontology and the formation of the LGBT Elders" - published in Vibrant Magazine in 2016 - received an honorable mention in the Carlos Monsiváis Prize (Social Sciences area) from the Sexualities Section of LASA - Latin American Studies Association in 2017. By Finally, the book "O Brilho das Velhices LGBTI+: experiences and narratives of LGBT50+ people", published in 2021 by Editora Hucitec, of which he was one of the organizers, won the 2021 POC Awards, by popular vote.

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2024-09-02

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Vol. 11 No. 25 (2024): janeiro a abril de 2024

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Artigos Livres

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