Metaphor and/or representations: concerns and identities

Abstract

In terms of politics, one of the current points of dissonance is the linguistic expressiveness of people who do not identify within the hegemonic gender binary: non-binary identities. There have been significant advances in how non-binary people have existed: provoking their insertion into the social imagination, the cultural landscape, and current legal norms, despite the resistances in these spheres when they challenge beyond the counter-hegemonic notion of the “traditional” trans being that would theoretically evoke a binary way of existing. Being non-binary is controversial in the very definition of being, essentially presenting in the negative particle: it does not show what it is but presents what it is not – although there are definitions that do not operate through negation, such as “gender-fluid,” “gender-queer,” “intergender.” Often, in a rationalized and strategic way, the traces of controversy left by linguistic, political, educational, institutional, epistemological, or other forms of discussion are used to debate the viability of an identity formed in a non-traditional way and how it fits into the social framework – or discusses the existence of these non-binarized forms of gender in society from always, whether society is aware of these expressions or not. This entire text, in an almost-essayistic tone, is precisely a way of using linguistic controversy that various publications seek to add to and discuss, increasing the trail of controversies, reflecting more on what a non-binary identity is and how languages can expand its existence or reduce it in a nearly deadly way in its essence.