“Being a faggot is being free”: a documentary announcing ways of existing at the borders of genders

• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Roney Polato de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Digital do LAV ( Laboratório de Artes Visuais)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/revislav/article/view/43964
• topic: Documentary; faggot; visual regimes; educational processes; cis-heteronormativity.; documentário; bicha; regimes de visualidade; processos educativos; cis-heteronormatividade

The article aims to discuss the politics and poetics of the images in the documentary ‘Bichas’, directed by Marlon Parente, from Pernambuco. The documentary brings the accounts of six young people who narrate experiences in different social spheres from their identification as ‘faggots’. The analyses incorporated the contributions of studies on the Visual Culture, and gender relations and sexualities in order to problematize the educational processes that lead us to think about how each character builds meanings and experiences of himself when assuming himself as 'faggot', resignifying the injury that this word represents to affirm ways of existing that challenge the cis-heteronormative visual regimes.