Abstract
ABSTRACT Brazil has the highest murder rate of transgender people in the world. The paper will focus on a debate of how audio description of some audiovisual products should be used to call the attention to the discrimination and violence suffered by homosexual couples. We have chosen a Brazilian music video called Flutua produced and performed by Johnny Hooker with special participation of the Brazilian singer Liniker, a black trans woman. The clip presents an outstanding visual narrative involving contemporary themes such as gays with disability, gender-fluid and homophobia. During the video a gay deaf couple spends a day having fun with friends in an urban scenario composed by known streets and places of Sao Paulo capital. At the end of the day a member of the group suffered a very violent attack. The audio description of the most relevant scenes, the identities and outfit of the singers, and their movements will be presented having in mind the music as protagonist of Flutua.
Highlights
Some decades ago, a new social paradigm appeared which reconsidered or reinitiated the traditionally established social schemata
Though necessary, language can be of little help when we construct sexual orientation and gender identities as “any act of identity affirmation requires a certain level of essentialisation, which is something that has been rejected in recent years by theories” (MARTÍN RUANO, 2018: Preface)
Flutua has been chosen as our object because we wanted to show how audio description (AD) allows visually impaired people to understand the importance of gay and transgender people being represented in Brazilian audiovisual products, namely in the music video genre
Summary
A new social paradigm appeared which reconsidered or reinitiated the traditionally established social schemata. Under the concept of “post-structuralism”, the ideas proposed by authors such as Derrida, Foucault, Barthes and Deleuze tried to put to the test what had been considered the truth These authors believed language played an important role in the construction of identities since such construction is related to labels required to refer to what is around and within us. Despite being placed under the same umbrella, queer theories differ from feminist and homosexual theories, in that the queer is never based on a natural identity (man/woman), nor on a definition grounded in (homosexual/heterosexual) practices rather but in the multiplicity of bodies that are discovered when combatting the regimes that build them as “normal” or “abnormal” (PRECIADO, 2005, p.163) In this regard, we can say that language is unable to communicate reality, or at least, the potential reality of the multiplicity of existing identities. The attention is put in some audio introduction and audio description excerpts of the music video, which lead to the conclusions of the present paper
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