"O Segredo de Lourival": uma netnografia sobre corpo, dissidências e normatividades em Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

In order to understand how the legal-media discursive practices acted in the game of truth about sex and gender of Lourival Bezerra de Sá, I analyzed narratives contained in articles from news portals that set out to investigate the "hidden reason" why, they allege, a woman has hidden her "true identity" for at least fifty years. To do so, I used the netnographic method, or ethnography in digital environments, as well as case study to explore the history of political claims of transmasculine people, their demands and contestations to cisgender normativity. Back to online news portals and its comment sections I searched for representations, narratives, and discomforts caused by Lourival's trajectory and the eagerness to inquire about his "true identity," which has as parameter the ontologizing and binary perception of personhood. The perceptions about Lourival's life experience permeate the representations of sin-crime, disease monstrosity and transgressor-man. Finally, I discuss the mechanisms of control and surveillance of body and gender that are established even when life, in its physiological aspect, has already vanished.