Corpos, identidades e sexualidades em disputa nos feminismos lésbicos

Abstract

Based on the understanding of the field of lesbian feminism as political and discursive productions that articulate language, worldviews, sharing of practices, and ideas for the constitution and legitimization of claims that form political formations, permeated by disputes that lead to the reconfiguration of this field itself, the objective of this research is to analyze the political clashes concerning the lesbian category currently evident in the Brazilian context, specifically on the Instagram platform. To this end, we start with an incident on the official Instagram page of LesboCenso, a survey developed by lesbian collectives and national networks to map the reality of Brazilian lesbians, which positioned itself as a trans-inclusive lesbian survey. Following this stance, the survey’s page on the platform became the target of attacks and public retaliation from profiles self-identified as radical feminist lesbians, and gender-critical lesbians, among others. Following this situation, we aim to investigate the ruptures and alliances produced in contexts of lesbian feminist articulation in Brazil and Latin America, identify the disputes around the lesbian category observed during the 1st stage of the LesboCenso Nacional survey, observe the positions on lesbianities in the interactions established on the LesboCenso Instagram, and understand the feminist conceptual and political grounding that guides the arguments about the lesbian category expressed in these interactions. For this research, we have used a qualitative methodology combining ethnography elements from digital platforms document analysis and creating fictional narratives from field diaries. From the document analysis, we identified some conflict situations regarding the inclusion of women and trans people in lesbian feminist political articulation spaces in Brazil and Latin America. As a result of the research conducted on digital platforms, we found that the feminist conceptual and political grounding of lesbians who position themselves on the platform through anti-trans activism is linked to the productions of feminist lesbians who self-identify as radicals, which provided the basis for what is now called radical trans-exclusionary feminisms.