“GAY KIT” AND THE PROBLEMS OF “POST-TRUTH”: PURSUING CRITICAL RESPONSES

• Autor(a) principal: Maracci, João Gabriel
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Machado, Paula Sandrine
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Farol - Revista de Estudos Organizacionais e Sociedade
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.face.ufmg.br/index.php/farol/article/view/6722
• topic: Kit gay; Posverdad; Género; Política; Tecnología; Kit gay; Pós-verdade; Gênero; Política; Tecnologia; Gay kit; Post-Truth; Gender; Politics; Technology

This article approaches the “gay kit” quarrel by a controversy mapping carried out in online publications between the years 2011 and 2018. It focuses on the critical responses that this signifier received in political disputes, in which it was referred as a stigmatizing label to the governmental project “Escola sem Homofobia” (Schools without Homofobia), in a movement often associated with fallacies, lies or the so-called “post-truth”. We argue that this strategy reduces the complexity of the controversy, based on a stabilized ideal of truth, which has already been overcome by the usage of the prefix “post”. In this way, based on the Science and Technology Studies, we propose another approach to “gay kit”, not considering it previously as a lie, but rather following the performative network in which it acquires grades of veridiction in brazilian public sphere, becoming effectively a political fact by a movement that we call coordination, process by which multiple elements are articulated in the contingent composition of reality.