Visibilidades lésbicas em plataformas de mídias sociais: heteronormatividade e resistências no YouTube, Instagram e TikTok

Abstract

The play between resistance and docility to gender norms has specific contours when seen from social media platforms. Such disputes are the core of this article focused on lesbianities' visibilities and invisibilities on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. Each one of the researches, briefly pointedhere, are methodologically molded to the platform's specificities. Besides presenting the results of surveys designed from qualitatives and quantitatives perspectives, the text also turns to the shifts on meaning and on negotiations implemented by the gender norm in order to expand the content circulation. It understands as inherent to platforms the logic of rich get richer and the normatization of bodies, even when it comes to deviant sexualities, with the predominance of white, thin, young women without disabilities and who perform feminility.