ANTI-GENDER DISCURSIVE PRACTICES ON INSTAGRAM: AN ANALYSIS OF COMMENTS ON A POST BY THE SUPREME COURT[1][1] Paper presented at the XIII International Meeting of CONPEDI (Uruguay – Montevideo).

Abstract

In the field of law, LGBTI+ people have experienced several processes of exclusion and stigmatization due to gender identity and sexual orientation, needing to fight numerous disputes within the judiciary to have their rights recognized. At this point, there has been an important role of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) during the last few years. The objective of this essay was to carry out a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) based on the social manifestations broadcast on Instagram, see comments related to the publication in celebration of International LGBTQIAPN+ Pride Day made by the Court's official institutional profile in June 2023. It was intended, for this purpose, to have gender studies as a basis not only in the field of elaborations of women's existences, but in the conformation of a system that associates roles, performativities, sexualities and power, that is, an analytical leap to visualize the interferences of gender construction in all the bodies that inhabit this society. The analysis was operationalized by the categories of analysis of representational meaning, based on the linguistic categories of interdiscursivity and the modes of operation of ideology. As a result, we observed that anti-gender discourse is, above all, cisheteronormative and lgbtphobic, positioning people who are part of the LGBTI+ community in invisibility, abjection and exclusion.