“Fagot, queer”: transvestites and the omission the other

Abstract

This text comes from the discussions I made in the master’s degree. In that, I interviewed two trans women who identified themselves as transvestites. And here I problematize part of the speech of V ... (fictitious name of the interviewee) about an episode in which this one is humiliated in the classroom. From then on, I try to think this fact through the logic of biopower, a concept coined by Michel Foucault in his courses in the late 1970s, to think about the school and the normative order in which we are inserted. Think about the many segregations that this speech provokes, as well as the pain caused in these bodies. And in this way problematizing this other who is far from education.