Máquina de fazer comunidades (LGBTQIA+) e outras bioengenharias-filosóficas

Abstract

Someone once told me that you had to be careful with people, that this was a very important thing. I believe that on that day this text began to be written and later took the form of an academic work. In this study, I aim to feel and think and articulate three main points: i) the idea of making communities, ii) the existence of lgbtqia+ communities and iii) the defense of this doing as an educational process. All this is discussed from a decolonial epistemological perspective, especially with the authors: Silvia Cusicanqui, Glória Anzaldúa, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Arturo Escobar, Raúl Zibechi and bell hooks. I dialogue with the concepts of these authors — in particular that of making communities of affinities — to arrive at my own elaboration on communities, arranged in six aspects. They are: identity catalysis, autonomy, acts of re-existence, ethics of the common, imagination of other possible worlds, education. Methodologically, I present an autobiographical text inspired by the work of Jota Mombaça and Pedra Homem — in addition to Glória Anzaldúa. Thus, this thesis reinvents my life-writing-research, giving it other dimensions and helping to decolonize academic research by re-thinking who, for whom, how, for what, what, why and with whom I write about practices community. I link all this to philosophical-bioengineering — a concept that I invent to say about what we create and which serves to imagine with and from nature, which serves to get to know the world. I write with these philosophical-bioengineering to make communities and, remembering what I was once told, to take care of life.