Confabulating the Present to look into Tomorrow: non-binarity as Other intelligibility

Abstract

This essay aims to understand the contours and implications of the non-binary movement and the contributions to the construction of a field of knowledge-power that destabilizes and deconstructs cis-heteronormative intelligibility. Thus, the focus is on the experiences of non-binary people, strengthening the plural and democratic character through the guarantee of rights, recognition and learning and respect for cis-heterodissident bodies in Brazilian society. This field of knowledge and political production has as references the Post-Structuralist paradigm, the Theory of Performativity and Transfeminism related to genders and the denunciation of cisgenderity as fictional and arbitrary in social intelligibility, in academic productions and in its political manifestations in various spaces, above all, in the school institution. Thus, the understanding of lives that exceed a binary, dichotomous, exclusionary and hierarchical logic (sex, gender and sexuality) contributes to giving visibility, ending silencing and historicides of cis-heterodissident people who are on the frontline of non-binarity. Along this path, the essay highlights other discourses, knowledge-powers, counter-narratives that resist violence through disobedience and destabilization of the Cystem. As a tool for elaborating reflections, confabulation was used as a verb of conspiracy, trap and creation of strategies to survive and contest cis-heteronormativity. In this way, confabulating the now to aim for tomorrow is an attempt to formulate questions, construct other knowledge with trans people as protagonists in the engendering of other truths committed to plurality and democracy. We also emphasize that we non-binary people are producers of other gears that make it possible to destabilize the Cistema, removing rust from the nuts and alleys and, if necessary, using other parts, in the social structure conceived as essentialist and ontological, which are already worn out and not they cannot and should not perpetuate exclusions and non-recognition. It is by staying in the internal layers of this still hegemonic social structure that we can change it, from the inside out. We will, therefore, be a corrosive liquid to corrode this rotten Cystem.