Gênero e identidade(s) na contemporaneidade: os desafios do não-binário

Abstract

Throughout this dissertation, I introduce concepts and analyze non-binary gender identities in current times. The formation of the identity in this scenario happens through political and social organization of representative minorities who take ownership of the means of production of knowledge/power to validate their existences and address their demands. Therefore, movements like feminism and the LGBTQIA+ movement, with the questionings from their social analysis categories – gender, sexuality and queer – are fundamental in order to understand the process of subjectivity formation and subject agency, making possible the existence of “dissident” identities and life experiences. By developing a qualitative investigation on digital media using content analysis, I was able to reflect on non-binary gender identities in Sociology as a relevant theme, as it brings to the debate changes that are already in course regarding the notion of identity and the structures of language. The fragmentation of identities and the structural changes proposed by non-binary people, much more than an act of rebellion, show that we do not need to necessarily abandon the core of the traditional identity intelligibility, but to understand that existences go very much beyond the alleged binary gender truth.