“I DID TIETA’S RETURN”: A MAPPING OF THE DESIRES AND AFFECTIONS OF A TRANS WOMAN

Abstract

This article is an excerpt from my doctoral research. Here I sought to reflect on the speech of a trans woman, Maria Eduarda, about the processes of subjectivation that she faced until her sexual reassignment surgery and her return to her hometown. In an interview lasting just over an hour, she told me about her problems with her social name at the university where she studied, as well as what she called psychological difficulties, which I problematize here based on theorists of transfeminist, cuir and decolonial theories. Reaching university was accompanied by the creation of a series of state and government policies that enabled new routes that could be followed by other segments of society, such as trans women. Therefore, here I narrate these micro cuts in the rigid order and other possibilities of subjectivation invented by these subjects.