Dignidade já: redes , política e a luta por reconhecimento de drag queens soteropolitanas

Abstract

The present dissertation aims to produce an interpretative analysis of the utterances conveyed in the most different spaces by Soteropolitan Drag Queens about their demands for recognition of transformista art as dignified work, the formation of regional Drag identity and their political strategies of resistance. It is considered how the statements are the result of situational challenges and are presented as answers to some of the problems that make the reality of these artists, such as poor remuneration, the undertakings of state and market devices for the subjectivation of bodies according to the heteronorma, the capture and standardization of art by the mainstream media and the policies of a government that deteriorated political institutions in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic. To this end, queer theory theorists such as Leandro Colling and Paul Preciado are used to support the debate on the political potential of dissident bodies, as well as the debates on recognition and redistribution between Axel Honneth and Nacncy Fraser to analyze the meanings attributed to the struggle for artists. The methodology is a creative effort to build a cartography that works the convergence between digital and face- to-face, in which, through the tracking of the lines of forces in the virtual and physical platforms, it becomes possible to assemble a unit of meaning of their speeches.