“Throw your guts on paper”

northeastern queer/cuír epistemologies and the poetics of self-narrative

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i23.62208

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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.

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Angélica Nobre Mendes, State University of Alagoas

State University of Alagoas (UNEAL), Master's student in the Postgraduate Program in Territorial Dynamics and Culture (ProDiC). Psychologist and Psychotherapist (CRP 15/6310). Member of the Gender and Behavior Study and Research Group - GEPGEC. Member of the Brazilian Network of Studies on Bisexuality and Monodissidence (REBIM). CAPES scholarship holder.

Augusto Ferreira Ramos Filho, State University of Alagoas

State University of Alagoas (UNEAL), Permanent Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Territorial Dynamics and Culture (ProDiC). Leader of the Gender and Behavior Study and Research Group - GEPGEC.

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2025-12-11

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Nobre Mendes, A., & Ramos Filho, A. F. (2025). “Throw your guts on paper”: northeastern queer/cuír epistemologies and the poetics of self-narrative. Revista Periódicus, 1(23), 129–148. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i23.62208

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Vol. 1 No. 23 (2025): Self-narratives in spaces of (re)existence: arts, bodies, languages and "sudakas" dissident practices

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Dossier 23 - Self-narratives in spaces of (re)existence

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