JARDIM’S TRAVAS ARE UNITED: ETHNOGRAPHY OF TRAVESTIS IDENTITY PERFORMANCE IN RURAL AND INLAND CITIES CONTEXTS IN POTIGUAR HINTERLAND.
Travestis; Rural and inland cities contexts; Identity performance; Social visibility; Sociabilities.
Research on travestis presents mainly an urban locus for the identity performance of travestilidades, little knowing the performatizations in other contexts, such as rural, inland and ethnically differentiated.By ethnographic route, i followed daily, with some intervals, five travestis between February and September 2019 in a rural/interior of the Norteriograndense countryside,seeking to problematize and understand how these travestis performatize their gender identities and build their bodies and subjectivities.To this end, I will reflect on the fluidity and decentralization of these identity performances in the game in the gendered and sexualized symbols, behaviors and practices, realizing the power of corporealities in these contexts; i will analyze the various ways of socialization of these subjects from their lifetrajectories (BOURDIEU, 2006) and their projects (VELHO, 1981), seeking to highlight the social markers of the difference of race, class, generation and disability.I will also reflect on their sociability networks with regard mainly to the relationships established between them, with the travestis of other municipalities, with the family and with their loving partners.In a cross-sectional way I will discuss themes that deal with social (in) visibility, displacements and everyday resistances.Thus, the reflections of this essay also focus on the demystification of the existence of travestis in these contexts, as well as the disruption of the dual perception that places the rural as a subaltern place of travestilidades performances.