Tangled movements: Travestites, social movements, and academic practices

Abstract

The narratives about transvestite and transgender have integrated a significant set of academic works in Brazil, revealing different ways of (re)telling their sociability. This article is, of the construction of a narratives strategy that includes the perspective of an epistemology situated in the experience, a collective proposal tore think the place of the academy in there production of transvestite and transgender lives. Our argument is that different research strategies can reconstruct and resignify the discussion about the "place of speech" that has marked a tense relationship between academia and social movement.