Entre regras e silenciamentos: gênero e sexualidade em escolas públicas de Montes Claros – MG

Abstract

With this study we propose to problematize the disciplinary and cis-hetero-normative knowledge, practices and discourses that permeate the school space and its implications in the subjectivation processes of bodies, for that, we start from the concepts of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Paul Preciado in relation discussions on standardization and gender. Intending to achieve this goal, we divided this study into three articles. The first article, entitled “School Practices and Disciplinary Power: report of a participant observation in the light of Michel Foucault's thinking, stems from a study produced from the normative practices observed in the school's daily life. We propose to identify which and how disciplinary standardization processes are set in motion in the daily life of a public school in Montes Claros – MG. During our investigative path, it was possible to verify some of the ways in which the school exercises constant vigilance and intervention over the bodies, through various power devices operating in their daily practices. In the second article, “Gender and Sexuality in public schools in Montes Claros-MG: silencing, unpreparedness and suffering”, we seek to understand the effects of school normative productions in their disciplinary and regulatory interfaces of gender and sexuality in the process of subjectifying bodies, taking as the main theoretical reference, the studies of Judith Butler. To this end, we used the semi structured interview with three former students and six teachers from the public school system in the municipality of Montes Claros-MG. Through our study, it was possible to confirm how much schools still reproduce and produce knowledge based on cis-heterosexual binary norms, marginalizing everyone who exceeds this limit of socially constructed normality. Finally, in the third article “The sociability of young people between school disciplinary mediation and the pharmacopornographic regime of social networks”, we seek to analyze the influences of the pharmacopornographic regime on the process of sociability of young people in the school environment. To this end, we interviewed three former students from the public network of the Municipality of Montes Claros-MG. Having queer studies as a theoretical framework, mainly the work of the philosopher Paul Preciado. Through our study, we were able to investigate some of the ways that the pharmacopornographic regime acts at school, for example, the socio-cultural practices that, from social media, influence the subject's gaze towards himself and his relationship with the other, in a society progressively structured along the lines of this technological device.