"I MADE TIETA'S RETURN": A MAPPING OF A TRANS WOMAN'S DESIRES AND AFFECTIONS

Abstract

This article is an excerpt from my PhD research. Here I tried to think from the speech of a trans woman, Maria Eduarda, the processes of subjectivation that she faces until her sex reassignment surgery and her return to her hometown. In an interview of just over an hour in length, she tells me about her problems with her social name at the University where she studied, as well as what she called psychological difficulties, which I problematize here from the perspective of theorists of transfeminist, cuir and decolonial theory. Arriving at the University is accompanied by the creation of a series of state and government policies that enabled new routes that could be taken by other segments of society, such as trans women. Therefore, here I narrate these micro cuts in the hard order and other possibilities of subjectivation invented by these subjects.