Lesbianidades em vídeos no youtube: homonormatividade e violências

Abstract

We started from the analysis of YouTube videos related to lesbians to present a discussion about violence that targets lesbian women. Based on an expanded notion of violence, which in addition to physical violence also encompasses as symbolic, such as invisibility and fetishization, we propose a reflection on the normativities in these processes. Triggering studies on normativity, homonormativity and the production of differences, we point to the homogenization of the bodies in the 863 videos searched in two colects using the tags lésbicas and sapatão. The analyzes reveal the predominant presence of white, young, thin women who perform femininity, in a joint performance of the rich-get-rich algorithm and the gender norm. Finally, we discuss how masculinities in women, which are almost invisible in our databases, explain the deviation from the norm - which makes them subject to punishment for physical aggression.