How many disorders do we need to escape from?

production of biodiagnostics and bioidentities

Abstract

Our society follows the tradition of mapping our bodies with unnatural rulers to “justify” unequal prescriptions: they violate our rights, causing disruptions in our lives, while marking us as disturbed. In this scenario, it has been very common for people to receive diagnoses of some kind of mental disorder instead of reparation, as if reactions to these conditions were the result of bio-neuro-psychological issues. Without disregarding that in some situations, in this structure, diagnoses can be important for guaranteeing rights, functioning as a “rite of passage”, of displacement and resignification of experiences, we will seek to consider some relationships between the medicalization of life and the production of biodiagnoses and bioidentities at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and economic status. Our methodological strategy composes autobiographical traits in dialogue with references accessed in our transits on social networks, especially at the university, in social movements and on Instagram.