Nos bastidores, no palco e no mundo: uma etnografia sobre as relações de gênero, raça, arte e militância política do grupo Transhow em Maceió

Abstract

This dissertation is about the relations of gender, race and political activism in artistic manifestations carried out by a group of transformista art, Transhow, inserted in NonGovernmental Organization (NGO), ACTRANS (Cultural Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals of Alagoas). The fieldwork was organized around participation in diferente group activities, at the interface betwenn academia, polítics and artistic presentation, as well as indepth interviews with some artists, academics and political figures from the women’s trans and transvestites social movement. It is about reflecting on the formation of leaders in the broader social movements that envolve the practices of transformist art and its circulation in the State of Alagoas. I try to think how some artists, academics and activists relate to this artistic specificity in na attempt to describe a social movement distinct from that which characterized this population in political activism in the 1980s, through engagement in actions to cambat HIV-AIDS, and combating police violence in their workplace in prostitution. I privilegie art seeking to contribute to the expansion of the theoretical interface between studies of gender, race and social movement in anthropology.