Undoing the heteronormative tangles of school: Contributions of cultural studies and LGBTTT movements

Abstract

This study is a theoretical research that has sought to understand the concepts of culture and identity and, from these and reflections on the history and the proceeding of the LGBTTT movements, ponder on possibilities of overcoming heteronormative school practices. First, it presents considerations on the concept of culture, which includes an explanation of the different types of multiculturalism. Then, it articulates the concepts of culture and identity, whereupon the processes of recognition and representation are highlighted, and brings some notes on equality and difference. After, it reflects specifically on the sexual identities and contributions of social structures that shape such identities without, however, determining them. From this, it focuses on LGBTTT movements as movements to resignify and resist to heteronormative practices. Finally, it concludes that the critical and postmodern intercultural thinking is one that can not only rethink and deconstruct the mechanisms of exclusion of sexual differences present in everyday school life, but also reclaim the questioning for school space, making it a forum for discussion, where truths are shaken. Where it is possible to think, reflect on and put oneself in the other's place. A space in which it is possible to be different.