Nota de repúdio às caravelas: encruzilhadas Norte-Sul global na segurança pública para pessoas LGBTI+ brasileiras

Abstract

This is literally a disobedient research, both because it is built by intellectualities that are at the margins - of academia and the borders that define humanity - but for its insurgent role of provoking academia, the state, and sociability about the politics of death produced against sexually dissident and gender disobedient people: a colonial project that remains in place. Therefore, the research was built in an effort to discuss the existing crossroads between the Global North and South in the construction of public safety for Brazilian LGBTI+ people. These bodies have historically occupied diverse fields of social representation in various territories, including representations that put them in the place of dehumanization and the periphery of knowledge, being and power, especially when they are also crossed by racist violence or when they are constituted as corps originating from countries that are structured through colonial civilizing projects, such as Brazil. From this historical framework, it is possible to identify the existence of intersections in global geopolitics that produce an experience of gender coloniality and that dictate the rules of construction of safety for LGBTI+ people in the global South. Thus, the research used empirical analysis and literature review to map the place of coloniality in the production of security for the Brazilian LGBTI+ population. As a methodological procedure for the proposed apprehension, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 Brazilian LGBTI+ people, contemplating a significant number of participants self-declared black or indigenous, in the period from December 2022, accessing the interviewees' understanding of safety, feeling of safety, the perception about the ethnic/racial crossing in the violence suffered in the dimension of gender and sexuality, access to public-state organs of Public Safety and experiences with the LGBTI+ Social Movements. This is a research mobilized by the field of studies Queer of Color Critique - or racialized queer critique - influenced by black feminism and post-structuralist studies. The results achieved in this research contour into a visualization of Public Security as a public policy that acts on police and prison forces to replicate violence and death against people of color, deployed by the Western global North. The LGBTI+ population also feels victimized by police abuses and report the feeling of insecurity impacted by the conduct of the Public Security establishment and agents in the country, due to the violations produced by them. Moreover, it is possible to mark the latent LGBTI+phobic violence in Brazil, especially when one is transgender, black, brown or indigenous, as traumas of gender coloniality that remain open. Finally, we identify the epistemic and political disobedience that confront hegemonic knowledge, ethics, and morals and enable security for the LGBTI+ population, given the state gaps in providing protection for sexual and gender dissident bodies.