Revista Periódicus

Editorial team

2025-09-04

Can the psychological clinic listen to a black faggot?

Deivison Warlla Miranda — 2025-09-04

This article repositions Gayatri Spivak's question to call on the psychological clinic to question its listening to black fags, based on a critique of its tradition mostly anchored in cis-hetero-centric white colonial matrices. It is a cartographic experience built from clinical encounters with a black queer, whose data were analyzed using Encruzanalysis as a methodological cosmogram that allows the analysis of subjectivation processes in their micropolitical and macropolitical intersections. Clinical listening is thus expanded to capture transits and intersections between themes such as racism and homophobia, loneliness, objectification and sexualization, in addition to active resistance as an aesthetic-political dimension of confronting intersecting oppressions. The clinical experience goes beyond the merely individual dimension and opens up room for questions about the role of the psychological clinic with LGBTQIAP+ people.

Stun the norm, interpellate the norm, terrify the norm

Sanara Rocha — 2025-09-04

“Linguistic injury appears to be the effect not only of the words by which one is addressed but the mode of address itself, a mode—a disposition or conventional bearing—that interpellates and constitutes a subject” is what Judith Butler (1997) says. In other words, the insult, the linguistic injury, however hateful and vile it may be, is capable of constituting the subject in the field of language through interpellation contradicting their own intention of killing the deviant subjects. Often the insult creates deviant subjects with the voices vibrations, with the injurious callings. Now, if the meaning of everything that is said can only be conceived because there are pauses marking the durations and the discursive rhythm, then would it be in the silences Where found is the true meaning of things? The whiteness while a power’s institution has privileges place in the Society too many times because of her neutrality in the discourse or her invisibility in the official narratives, then would it be in the silence that she is hidden? What happens when interpelate we the silence and the invisible subjects?

“Akaiutibiró” knowledge

José Washington de Morais Medeiros — 2025-09-04

This article discusses the LGBTQIAPN+ Potiguara indigenous crafts, made in the North coast of Paraiba, as part of a master's research project in the field of Education. As a result of the research, an Educational Product (PE) was designed, typified as an “iconographic exhibition”, which was applied at the XVIII Week of Education, Science, Culture, and Technology (SECT/IFPB). The public's immersion in the exhibition led to an evaluation, whose results showed significant accolades to the LGBTQIAPN+ Potiguara indigenous crafts. As a result, the ethnic-cultural and historical-artistic legacy of popular art and knowledge plurality can optimize transversal content for omnilateral education, overcoming the abyssal thinking, broadening conceptions of native peoples, interculturality, work, crafts, class, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, supplanting neoliberal, neocolonial and neopatriarchal aporias.

(De)transition?

Arevik Bogossian Porto — 2025-09-04

This article introduces two reports on gender detransition to reconceptualize the process of transition based on philosophical reflections from the theoretical field of fashion. Gender nonconformity, as addressed by psychology and medicine – represented by the DSM-5, ICD-10, and ICD-11 manuals – is situated within the realm of deviation and pathology, which prescribes corrective procedures for trans bodies, overseen by a medical team. While on the one hand, aesthetic procedures for cisgender people do not face the same level of control and bureaucracy, the unquestioned adherence to gender binarism and submission to normative roles may not alleviate the feelings of inadequacy of trans people, whose suffering manifests in the desire to turn back. By recognizing bodily interventions of different temporalities as features of all societies, as well as the transience of fashion images capable of evoking both rejection and desire, we argue that the back-and-forth process of exploring appearance and gender cannot be understood as failure or regret, but rather as an expression of a mode of being characterized by disidentification with the cisgender norm.

“Identity” in perspective

Iago Marichi Costa — 2025-09-04

This article contrasts two perspectives on trans* identity: one rooted in medical-scientific discourse and the other grounded in critical approaches. It begins with a brief literature review on the construction of the “transsexual” category in the West, shaped largely by medical-scientific knowledge. It then introduces a critical perspective influenced by Queer studies. The analysis draws on interviews with five Brazilian trans* artists, interpreting their experiences through this critical lens. The article emphasizes that independent artistic creation serves as a process of self-recognition, world interpretation, and the formation of bonds and affections that foster existence. These artistic practices embody care and resistance, challenging conventional understandings of trans identity.

Gender and coloniality as markers of/in the health actions of the transmasculine population

Benjamin Vanderlei dos Santos — 2025-09-04

In debates about gender, the presence of trans men and transmasculine people has been increasingly significant, making it essential to expand knowledge about issues relating to this population. As a result, this article aims to debate how issues of gender and coloniality are markers that permeate the health actions of the transmasculine population in northeastern Brazil, discussing these processes based on the life trajectories of trans men/transmasculine people monitored through of an ethnocartographic route developed in the city of Recife (PE). The results point to the need for greater problematization of cisgenderity as a category that guides the diagnostic construction of transgenderity, correlating with the colonial matrix of power. Among the many findings of the research - which discussed the multiplicities in the constitution of being/becoming a man that cross the experiences of trans men/transmasculine people in northeastern Brazil - we highlight in this article access to health and its impacts on comprehensive care on the part of of trans men/transmasculine people.

Necrobiopolitics and trans experiences

Thais Geraldo Oliveira de Aguiar — 2025-09-04

This article aims to analyze the data presented by the National Association of Travestis and Transsexuals (ANTRA) in the Dossier of Murders and Violence against Brazilian Travestis and Transsexuals. To do so, we rely on the concept of necropolitics to problematize the existing relationships and seek to understand how the state acts (or fails to act) in governing the conduct of certain groups that are transgressing gender norms. Consequently, we aim to analyze the unequal distribution of the right to life and recognition of humanity, questioning how certain groups of the population are more frequently and violently deprived of life than others. The analysis employs tools from Foucault's archaeo-genealogy. The data indicate that these experiences are engendered by a social, cultural, and symbolic machinery that produces interactions through the management of death and processes of invisibilization, making certain lives appear to have less value than others.

Fair play and gender relations in the movie Fair Play (2023)

Gleissiano Ruan de Freitas — 2025-09-04

In this article we analyze the film Fair Play, released in 2023 by Streaming Netflix, directed by Chloe Domont. In order to understand how gender relations impact the labor market and whether the term "Fair Game" fits within such a context. Methodologically, we work with the concept of Cultural Studies, understanding that a film is a representation of the society it seeks to portray from the point of view of its creators. Tacit, we realize that leadership positions are predominantly occupied by men, given that they are encouraged since childhood to occupy competitive places while women are educated for more subtle tasks, thus, at the end of the study we consider that Fair Play is not fair in terms of gender relations, since for a woman to ascend professionally, The effort tends to be greater if we compare it to man, not because of his lack of competence, but because of the system that objectifies them, taking away the merits of their achievements.

Modes of subjectivation of Candomblé and Umbanda leaders about gender and sexuality in terreiros

Francisco Marcos Gomes de Brito — 2025-09-04

The discussion about the participation of trans and transvestite people in Afro-Brazilian religions has increased recently. These religions are known as spaces of existence and resistance for minority groups. This cartography aimed to discuss the actions of three Candomblé and Umbanda leaders regarding the agency and experiences of trans, transvestite and transmasculinity people in their terreiros. The analysis of the statements, produced in the cartographic interviews, shows how the agencies of lesbophobia and transphobia are reproduced in the terreiros by the leaders and also by the participants. Despite this, the results also point to a search by priestesses of Umbanda and Candomblé to welcome these people and combat discrimination in their terreiros, which can be taken as an ethical, aesthetic and political action not only for the Afro-Brazilian religions themselves, but for the entire society as a whole.

"My dream has always been to wear a Melissa"

Nathan Jesus da Silva — 2025-09-04

The aim of this exploratory qualitative study was to analyze how queer children are treated at school and in Physical Education classes. Interviews were conducted with eight university men. The data was analyzed from a post-structuralist theoretical-methodological perspective and subjected to content analysis, from which four categories of analysis emerged: 1) perceiving oneself as a queer child; 2) moral harassment and physical violence; 3) the school; 4) Physical Education classes. The results indicate that there is no improvement in the treatment of queer children at school: they are the target of derogatory actions at school and especially in Physical Education classes.

Women and Philosophy at the University of São Paulo

Luiza Garcia Lucio — 2025-09-04

This article draws on studies on gender inequality in Philosophy courses and seeks to contribute to this debate by presenting a case study of the undergraduate course at the Philosophy Department of the University of São Paulo (DF/FFLCH/USP). With this in mind, the analysis starts from the presence of women in Brazilian higher education, goes through Philosophy courses in the country, and then presents data on the presence of men and women on courses at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH/USP). The main objectives are to highlight the double exception of the case of Philosophy – it does not fit into the cases of humanities courses nor in the case of courses where women are in the minority – and the importance of case studies to understand the phenomenon of gender inequality in Philosophy.

Pornography and the forbidden fruit

Yasmin Xavier dos Reis — 2025-09-04

Faced with the dichotomous role played by pornography in the popular imagination, which transits between immorality and sexual freedom, it was necessary to investigate how current scientific articles use these regimes of truth in the perpetuation of pornography stigmas, as well as to investigate their relationship with cisheteronormativity . The LGBTQIA+ community, the target of the investigations carried out by the 8 articles analyzed, is constantly placed in a position of immorality, which contributes to its abjection in the scientific field. This article intends to focus on the tangle of biopolitical discourses, based on the guidelines of Michel Foucault's discourse analysis. It was concluded that pornography is constantly associated with immorality, illness and criminality. There are numerous attempts to relate pornography consumption with the LGBTQIA+ community through pejorative terms, cisheterocentric arguments, rooted stigmas and discussions that lack theoretical and social depth, which contributes to the perpetuation of the cycle of exclusion of bodies and abject pleasures.

“I am a living body trapped in a normative regime"

Guilherme Pessatti do Couto — 2025-09-04

The essay analyzes Paul Preciado's film Orlando, My Political Biography, based on readings from the field of the Sociology of Differences. Inspired by the work of Virginia Woolf, Preciado presents a narrative where multiple non-binary figures take the name Orlando, exploring how the characters' collective and personal experiences blur together. This text aims to discuss the trans-historical narratives constructed by the film from a queer and post-colonial perspective.

I was captured by God's army

Joanna Leoni — 2025-09-04

An autofictional tale about violence experienced by a transvestite body in a religious environment.