Revista Periódicus

Editorial team

2025-12-11T20:59:01+00:00

Presentation of the dossier

2025-10-09T19:31:25+00:00

Promised land

2024-07-05T14:17:58+00:00

No summary.

Inhabit the surroundings

2025-02-17T14:57:38+00:00

In this essay I present a particle of a research process that I develop in life, at university and in art. We would not need to compartmentalize these spaces depending on where we understand ourselves as people or agents, but some preliminary explanations are necessary here. I write in the personal first person on purpose, the essay will seek to build an intimate relationship with you to travel to my homeland. Producing texture, colors, lines through drawings and photographic images, this essay is a performance. Here I experiment with new words to interact with concepts, to weave in the body and in the experience of thought a science coherent with the process of creation of all living beings, including this being that speaks to you.

The autobiography as a space for the elaboration of the self

2025-04-29T01:17:44+00:00

This article aims to explore autobiographical writing, in which self-writing is included, as a tool that enables the construction and permanence of a subject's identity, drawing on the work of the Black author Carolina Maria de Jesus. To achieve this objective, an exploratory analysis was conducted on three of her books: Quarto de Despejo: Diário de uma Favelada (2014), Meu Sonho é Escrever (2018), and Diário de Bitita (1986). The theoretical framework of this study is based on authors such as Ângela de Castro Gomes (2004), Michel Foucault (1992), and Leonor Arfuch (2010). As possible conclusions, the study highlights the use of autobiographical writing as a means of creating traces that ensure the continuity of self-awareness and the dissidences revealed in Carolina de Jesus’s work.

"autohistories"

2025-02-17T15:10:44+00:00

Based on a visit to the “autohistories” exhibition (Paris, 2024), a collective exhibition inspired by the thoughts of the Chicana feminist theorist, activist and poet Gloria Anzaldúa, we developed this essay considering the conceptual pair vivência and experiences. From the shared experience, we think about the ways in which the different texts on display mobilized and affected us and, from this affective territory, we reflected on communication, self-writing and experience.

Aesthetics as existence

2025-04-29T01:13:56+00:00

In this article reflects on the overlap between lived performances and artistic performances and their emphasis, from the 2000s onwards, when black artists appeared on the scene, gaining greater protagonism. These are works that carry an aesthetic as an existence and an existence as an aesthetic, with the body as its main form of expression and communication, now expanded by circulation in digital environments. In this theoretical-methodological reflection, we use performance as a lens of analysis, using as a reference the thoughts of authors Leda Maria Martins (2021) and Diana Taylor (2013).

Abject bodies

2025-04-28T22:08:29+00:00

This article analyzes the role of abject bodies in contemporary times, highlighting autobiographical narrative as a research method. We aim to identify viable tactics for amplifying these abjected voices. We analyze how these LGBTI+ bodies claim spaces that have historically been denied. We conclude that equity can only be achieved when these abjected bodies are recognized, respected and included in all aspects of social and institutional life.

Transcestrality

2025-03-09T18:09:44+00:00

In this writing we propose to break with cisgender academicism and denounce the colonial projects of annihilating transvestites, understanding how their subjectivities disorganize the body-sex-gender system, threatening cis-heteroconformity and enhancing sexual and gender dissent. Through the concepts of coloniality of gender, nomadic genders, sexual and gender disobedience, and transcestrality, we move from death as the life expectancy of trans and transvestite people to the shattering of the normative logic that presupposes ancestry and the future as privileges only for cisgender people. Xica Manicongo's history reveal that sex and gender are sociocultural inventions, that dissident corporalities and sexualities exist even before the imposition of the normal-abnormal binary; her transcenstrality and that of others is a guide to dismantle the normal, refound the possible and invade the production of knowledge and cis-centered subjectivities.

Letters in the wind

2025-01-10T17:02:43+00:00

We write letters. We report to ourselves. We cross the ocean through writings that talk about us and our lives as corporeality in dissent. There is no concrete reason, but meanings that are produced in everyday life and in dealing with “Others”, whether they are close or radically different. We believe in flows of difference and we understand that any attempt at definition ends in interrupting such flows. How, then, can we live more livable lives and more morbid deaths when the most powerful thing we have closes down? We share our experiences and meanings, because we believe that, in this way, we can negotiate with the norms, sometimes circumvent them, and create ways to escape what, even if provisionally, constitutes us: our being-being-dissent.

“Throw your guts on paper”

2025-01-29T18:17:04+00:00

This article aims to explore the experiences of resistance of northeastern queer researchers to heteronormativity, through the analysis of the poem “Reminder to learn how to fail”. Through an ethnobiographical journey, we propose a dive into experiences that encounter the grip of the imposition of heteronormativity in the brazilian northeastern context and the self-narrative as a tool to escape. Queer poetics does not just encompass the description of narratives, but question and tension which bodies are authorized to enunciate. Heterosexuality operates as a political regime and the effects of heteronormativity influence the way of occupying the world and how relationships are built. Such processes have been permeated by authoritarianism since colonization, causing marks in the construction of dissident identities. From the provocation about (re)learning to fail, the norm is broken and the exclusionary world organization is subverted, introducing new meanings to LGBTQIAPN+ existences.

slam of minas

2025-05-13T16:53:40+00:00

This text is an excerpt from my master's thesis, in which I, an Afro-Amazonian black woman, study and write about the poetic production of black women in the slam scene. To this end, the research uses the anthology They want to silence us: poems to be read aloud, organized by Mel Duarte. The excerpt of three poems were considered to compose the article, all produced by black women, whose focus is the poetic making of poets in their contexts of experience until the consideration of the specific differences in the production of black women and the rescue of orality, black ancestry and the need to rethink the black-female body as a form of reexistence in contemporary poetry.

Cunt intelect

2025-05-11T11:36:18+00:00

This article aims to carry out a bibliographical review about authors who research gender issues – such as Jaqueline Gomes de Jesus, Sofia Faveiro, Viviane Vergueiro, Letícia Nascimento and Jota Mombaça - that can compose a dialogue with the artist’s songs and speeches Linn da Quebrada from a perspective based on the Actor-Net Theory (ANT). Through these seams and fissures, being able to observe the body as an actor that mediates interpersonal relationships, especially bodies considered dissident, analyzing the historical and social elements that add to transfeminine wisdom and aesthetics, seeking to expand notions of womanhood and transfeminities. Therefore, we understand what the authors, Linn and I have something to add regarding the possibilities of constructing new narratives beyond those rooted in social structures of oppression. Among the possibilities, developing psychologies practices that are committed to breaking with hegemonic practices and willing to expand knowledge that lies beyond the borders of the university. The provocations that inhabit the dialogue between the theoretical foundation, music and experience allow a connection between psychology and art that promotes encounters and relational care practices that are essential to the field of health and to the body of a transfem psychologist. Expanding the possibilities not only of making psychologies, but also of building new images of those who can live and stay in academic spaces and those who care, means making mental health services accessible to vulnerable populations.

Transfeminism as a possibility of inserting the “the prey’s predator standpoint” in the art field

2025-05-11T11:32:15+00:00

We present a research previously named as “Cuidado com a visão de rapina das gazela” - An inventory of the artistic production of black trans people in Brazilian contemporary art” and, concomitantly, we aim to begin to elaborate possibilities for the use of these data in the art field. We aim to begin a reflection on the transfeminist and queer projects in the art field based on interviews with gender dissident and black visual artists, aligned with the deepening and analysis of their works.

Speaking for our difference

2024-10-17T18:03:34+00:00

This article aims to reflect on the relevance of artistic productions, in a confluence of poetry, body and performance, in affirming dissident identities within a post-dictatorial South American context. Taking as a starting point the discussion of identity postulated by Leonor Arfuch (2005), we propose to establish a dialog between the critical thinking and artistic aesthetics of Pedro Lemebel, Batato Barea and Susy Shock. In the wake of political discussions over the last twenty years - discussions which have catalyzed a cuír/sudaka subjectivity - summoning these dissident gendered bodies present in the argentine and chilean territories ratifies an impetus to radically transform the imaginary of the city in the perspective of a world to come.

Ramita seca, tu corazón

2025-03-25T21:02:14+00:00

In this article, we discuss the performances of the Argentinian drag queen Bartolina Xixa, an artist who calls herself a diverse drag queen, based on the observation of two of her videos: Ramita Seca: La colonialidad permanent (2019) and BARTOLINA XIXA (2019). We interrogate the ways in which the artist's experience constitutes an important shift in relation to entertainer drag queens, by claiming processes of territorialization and deterritorialization that emerge in her performances and concern her relationship with different aspects of her experience in the world: the geographic origin, on the border between Argentina, Bolivia and Chile; the binarity inscribed in traditional Andean cultures and the updating of colonial logics in Latin America. In dialogue mainly with La Fountain-Stokes (2011; 2021), Hartman (2008), Taylor (2013), Comolli (2008) and Brasil (2011), we seek to identify dimensions of fabulation in Bartolina Xixa's artistic practices, inscribed in her performances and in the mise en scène of the videos, that claim a marica & chola existence, politically questioning the imaginary of white Argentina, the ethnic erasure of the region's black and indigenous populations and the very idea of what a drag queen performance is.

Dissident semioses in the collaborative artistic creation

2024-12-05T00:06:02+00:00

Based on the analysis of the collaborative production ¿Dónde están las carta de nuestras ancestras al caminar sobre fuego?, exhibited at the 35th Bienal of São Paulo, this article aims to discuss the way in which Colectivo Ayllu, formed by a group of Latin American migrants residing in Spain, builds a dissident creative practice, while opposing hegemonic narratives. From our perspective, this occurs based on the collective and collaborative creation methodology proposed by Colectivo Ayllu, in which different singularities are correlated throughout the performances of dissident bodies. Therefore, result and process are closely linked, so that the apprehension of the panel-fabric implies the articulation of different sign arrangements in a semiotic continuum whose spiral temporality unfolds in the materialization of Latin American and artistic ancestral strategies of (re)existence.

Writings of themselves and of us

2025-02-03T14:15:34+00:00

This report is part of a master's research project that discussed how young women enunciate the gender issues that permeate their daily school life. In interlocution with Research-Inter(in)vention and the perspective of Research-Com, the aim of this article is to analyze the writings produced by young researchers from a public school on the outskirts of Fortaleza, Ceará, during this research. In this sense, it analyzes how these narratives produced through writings inspired by Conceição Evaristo challenge norms and stereotypes imposed by coloniality, which shapes the lives of peripheral young people through categories such as race, class and gender. Inspired by perspectives of decolonization of knowledge and being, the study proposes an approach that strengthens and empowers marginalized voices, using writing as a tool for empowerment and transformation. It is considered that these narratives function as instruments for denouncing the colonial structures still present in contemporary society, highlighting the re(existences) experienced by these bodies.

Bare wires

2025-01-19T19:12:22+00:00

The essay writing aims to reflect on the creative process of producing and filming the film “BAREBACK em si bemol (B♭)” (2024), as well as the public reception of the work. Made by two people living with hiv/aids, in the fourth decade of the epidemic in Brazil, the film exposes autobiographical narratives, the discussion about the cure, a perception about the uncritical medicalization that affects people living with hiv/aids, among other topics . Produced as an expanded dialogue between the people who made the film, our intention is to keep the debate about the epidemic alive, at the same time as we invite readers to an exercise of implication and responsibility regarding the images that they decide/we decide to keep in the imagination and orally regarding hiv and aids.

Interview with La Santa, Mozambican LGBTQ icon

2025-02-22T17:50:03+00:00

La Santa is a transgender Mozambican woman of Macua origin, an activist for LGBTQ rights and a founding member of LAMBDA, the main institution fighting for the recognition of the LGBTQ community in the country. In addition to her history of political struggles, La Santa is recognized throughout her national territory for the quality and potential of her artistic work. She became famous in the early 2000s when, together with her duo La Biba, she took part in a reality TV show where they performed drag queens. Since then, throughout Mozambique, across generations, La Biba and La Santa have been major LGBTQ cultural representatives and have made art a place of possibility for the expression of dissident gender identities, building spaces for debate, tolerance and dialog with society through local media. Another peculiarity in La Santa's trajectory is the acceptance of her spiritual calling, as she recently trained as a healer with (AMETRAMO) Association of Traditional Doctors of Mozambique, broadcasting her graduation day on TV as a way of breaking down prejudices against her identities: transgender and healer (traditional doctor). The following interview is an opportunity to meet La Santa's memories, her achievements, dreams and challenges, told in the first person by an icon of Mozambique's LGBTQ community.

Real dream

2024-08-06T19:47:42+00:00

The visual essay Real dream is constructed from violence suffered on the doorstep. In 2014, we suffered a homophobic attack by a group of men in front of the building where my boyfriend and I lived, in the Cidade Baixa neighborhood in Porto Alegre. Since the incident, I have started a process of taking photographs that touch on the real dimension of violence, appealing for a documentary record of the facts, but which is not limited to returning just violence to the imagination again. From this incident, a dirty, strange and aggressive drag also emerges, which manifests itself with a look that is sometimes threatening, sometimes vulnerable, within a frame and lighting that suggest a filmic aura.

Voo Solo and the construction of subjectivities through collage

2024-10-08T18:29:27+00:00

This essay is made up of the series entitled Voo Solo (2024), in which images from homoerotic pornographic magazines are combined with adhesive materials from baggage labeling during air travel. The combination of these disparate elements allows the construction of different meanings and subjectivations, as in the title, which refers to a popular expression and also indicates the nature of the images used in the manual compositions that were later digitized and edited.