O voo das araras falantes pelo céu da heteronormatividade: análise de falas e experiências por lésbicas desfem em episódios de podcasts à luz dos estudos culturais

Abstract

This research analyses desfem [defeminised] lesbians' speech acts in 2023-released podcast episodes available on Spotify. Three podcasts – (i) Lésbica e ansiosa, (ii) Sapajusta e (iii) Tesoureiras podcast – have been used as a means of socialisation of lesbian experiences. Among the discussed themes are experiences which connect the influence of the heteronormative system to the lived and felt everyday life. Due to the social construction of gender and sexuality, many desfem lesbians describe different events in which their gender performativity is affected by the presence of gender roles according to levels of femininity. Upon reflection, a guiding question has been made: in which ways is heteronormativity reproduced and questioned in desfem lesbians' speech acts in podcast episodes from a Cultural Studies perspective? This question is then turned into the general objective: to analyse how heteronormativity is reproduced and questioned in desfem lesbians' speech acts in podcast episodes from a Cultural Studies perspective. To reach this goal, the following subsidiary aims have been outlined: (i) define the theoretical grounds of Cultural Studies, with special attention to gender, sexuality and heteronormativity; (ii) discuss the experiences of desfem lesbians in Brazilian-produced podcast episodes with special attention to questions of gender and sexuality; and, finally, (iii) identify the processes of reproduction and questioning of heteronormativity in the podcast guests' speech acts. From a methodological standpoint, this research is described as a documental one, of qualitative approach and exploratory perspective.In which is possible to see some of the personal characteristics from these desfem lesbians’ experiences that is connected to the social heteronormative construction relating their respectives gender performativities. In this sense, a reflection was made about how this system interfere their relationships, taking place the lesbian experience as the main focus to think their daily life of defeminized womens.