Crisis of brazilian democracy and the everyday life of dissident people in genders and sexualities: Reflections from social occupational therapy

Abstract

The social life is organized on normative models according to genders and sexualities. Considering the forces that go through and determine it is a condition for occupational therapists to act from the perspective of citizenship with the populations that are opposite to the meanings and materiality of heteronormativity. Thus, this essay aims to produce reflections anchored in social occupational therapy that help to understand the constant attacks on the rights of the dissident people in genders and sexualities and how these situations of violence cross their everyday life and the praxis of occupational therapists with these populations. To this end, it takes as its starting point the debate on the crisis of contemporary Brazilian democracy, located from the impeachment coup of President Dilma Rousseff and the presidential successions with conservative and undemocratic agendas. Then, the bills that are materializing such controlling and disciplinary agendas of society are identified and discussed. Finally, there is a debate on how these problems lead to impediments and invisibilizations of performative activities in the various everyday life of dissident people in genders and sexualities.