Queer/cu-ir affronts: non-binary language in academic writing (political implications and possibilities)

• Autor(a) principal: Santos Filho, Ismar Inácio dos
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABRALIN (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.abralin.org/index.php/abralin/article/view/2003
• topic: Escrita acadêmica; Gênero gramatical; Linguagem não-binária; Academic writing; Grammatical gender; Non-binary language

The discussion about (non)sexist language and about linguistic activism is not new. If we recover its history, we can go back to the 18th century, when Olympe de Gouges proposed the Declaration of the Rights of Women, arguing that they did not feel included with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and also in opposition to tradition French grammar, according to Borba (2020) and Lopes (2021). In Brazil, this discussion is recent, initially in the academic space, in the scope of feminism. However, in recent years, in transfeminist activism, the demand for a non-binary language has gained popularity and reached the public debate, even mobilizing the Brazilian legislature, which has been proposing decrees that aim to prohibit the use of “grammatically-neutral gender” in the school sphere and in public administration. It is in this scenario of linguistic-ideological disputes that we propose to reflect on the possibilities and political implications of the use of this language in academic writing, in a queer/cu-ir way of confronting the normativities/normalities of language and bodies in our culture. The study dialogues with Carvalho (2021), Bagno (2019), Borba (2020), Fabiano (2004; 2020), Lagares (2018; 2020), Moita Lopes (2013), Melo (2021) and Santos Filho (2015; 2020), among other reflections, and argues that to use non-binary language in academic writing is to act to provoke urgent destabilization of meaning, acting in the microphysics of the webs of forces of scientific speech, in order to recognize “todes”