War machines: a brief cartography of Brazilian sexual and gender dissidence arts

Abstract

Based on the concept of war machines, which reveals the entanglements between subjectivities, semiotics, and materialities in the making of transgression and the production of lines of flight; on the understanding of the field of forces named “Western art” as a disciplinary power that abnormalizes and renders invisible certain aesthetics— communitarian, gender dissident, racialized—; and, finally, from the ontological turns taken by neo-materialist feminisms, this article, inscribed at the intersection of discursive studies and gender and sexuality studies, cartographies the subjectivities, conducts, and modes of doing of what it calls gender-dissident artisticities, revealing, in these aesthetics of things and of the self, a rhizome that creates ways of dealing with the human problem, ethical propositions for the precariousness faced by gender dissidents, and strategies of resistance in favor of a good life.