The body denied by its “extreme subjectivity”: Expressions of the coloniality of knowledge in research ethics

Abstract

In the quest to understand the (in)visibility of non-heteronormative bodies in medical education, a process that systematically grounds its institutional discourse on the biological coherence, I looked at my gay body both as a doctor and professor to understand this culture and its consequences. The objective of the article is to discuss the initial institutional confrontations faced by an autoethnographic research regarding homoaffectivity in medical education and practice. This work is aimed towards understanding the silencing imposed on subjectivity, existence and participation as a subject-researcher in “Science”. Thus, amidst a muted cry of a denied body, “misunderstood” for its “extreme subjectivity,” this text represents the audacity in speaking and breaking with the mortifying silence imposed by the supposed “scientific” hegemony.