Narrativas intersexo: um nó nos mitos epistemológicos fundantes

Abstract

In a context of celebration for the fact that on April 4, 2024, the United Nations Human Rights Council approved the first Resolution (A/HRC/55/L. 9) on discrimination, violence and harmful practices against intersex people, we seek to unravel the way in which epistemes, produced by intersex adults, clarify the importance and effectiveness of becoming in the narrative event with a view to constructing perceptions that reflect the breaking of paradigms and the destabilization of the epistemic scientific monopoly of a heteropatriarchal nature. The aim is to question the appropriation of knowledge, proposing a disorienting semiotics of the cysteme in the queerization of the self and language; to analyze the effects of heteropatriarchal imposition on biomedical control over non-binary bodies and sexualities; investigate crystallized truths responsible for the air of mystification attributed to maternal instinct and the omission of the rape culture and specify the contradictions of binary predominance, identity impositions, binding nominations and intersectional paradoxes as a safeguard for differences; based on a corpus consisting of 24 narratives, published on platforms such as Brújula intersexual in Mexico and other virtual spaces, managed by people with intersex variations. In a qualitative approach that is theoretically and methodologically linked to the indisciplinary and queer Applied Linguistics in interface with Critical Discourse Analysis (hereinafter LA and ACD respectively), to feminist and decolonial studies, in order to problematize the biopower that validates non-consensual surgeries on intersex children. Through a review of specialized literature and previous academic works, a solid theoretical basis is constructed for the analysis of these narratives, demystifying epistemological principles that underlie the decentering of language, which is still very much tied to internal hierarchies and power relations that prevent it from going beyond interdisciplinary approaches to practices that violate very personal rights. Among the results, it is clear that intersex narratives are queer, undisciplinary and emerging epistemes that traverse the social sciences and humanities as decolonial discursive incursions that question the scientific objectivism and the impartiality that ratifies the control of bodies; they denounce biomedical practices that trivialize the right to autonomy in the personal sphere and oppose non-consensual surgeries. We advocate the timely discursive and pedagogical reworking of intersex narratives so that poignant and traumatic memories that are difficult to verbalize are not reduced to cathartic outbursts, but rather that, by gaining the necessary political projection in the public space, they can be added to the epistemological factual truth with ethical, moral, educational and legal developments that renew public educational and health policies on sexual diversity, in alignment with the Human Rights.