Transcestrality

sexual and gender disobedience as counter-colonial subjectivation tricks

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i23.60794

Abstract

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.

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Maria Alice Teodoro da Silva, Federal University of Alagoas

Undergraduate student in Psychology at the Federal University of Alagoas - UFAL / Arapiraca Campus / Palmeira dos Índios Teaching Unit.

Raul Santos Brito, São Paulo State University

Psychologist, graduated from the Federal University of Alagoas - UFAL / Campus Arapiraca / Palmeira dos Índios Teaching Unit. Master's degree in Psychology from UFAL. PhD student in Psychology at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - UNESP/Assis. He conducts research in the area of social psychology with an emphasis on ethnic-racial relations, ethics of care and countercolonial epistemologies.

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2025-12-11

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Teodoro da Silva, M. A., & Santos Brito, R. (2025). Transcestrality: sexual and gender disobedience as counter-colonial subjectivation tricks. Revista Periódicus, 1(23), 90–109. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i23.60794

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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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