Presentation: Cuir Poetic
Doxa: Rev. Bras. Psico. e Educ., Araraquara, v. 18, n. esp. 1, e023017, 2023. e-ISSN: 2594-8385
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30715/doxa.v24iesp.1.18313 2
Introduction
The latest edition of ConQueer (II International Conference on Queer Studies), held in
December 2022 at the Federal University of Sergipe - UFS, brought together students,
researchers, activists, artists, and other individuals interested in fostering an environment
conducive to the exchange and production of knowledge grounded in feminist, queer/cuir, and
decolonial epistemological perspectives. In recent years, we have witnessed the exacerbation
of neoconservative forces within and outside democratic institutions. This scenario shakes the
foundations of our still fragile democracy. However, this conjuncture has allowed us to forge
alliances, even amidst our differences, and act towards a more comprehensive worldview. In
this context, we have moved beyond merely submitting to the institutional forces of the regime
of sexual difference, as pointed out by Paul Preciado, and now consider the conception of a
world in which gender politics are intrinsically connected to politics related to land, water, and
life.
Throughout the event, the theme of Poéticas Cuir guided us in seeking theoretical,
practical, and methodological reflections that reaffirm our commitment to a critical academic
community concerning the normalization, naturalization, essentialization, uniformization, and
binary thinking surrounding sexual, racial, and gender dissidences. The various activities, such
as discussions, roundtable sessions, conferences, working groups, and presentations that
comprised the meeting, provided an opportunity to envision a queer/cuir thought and ethics
rooted in the context of the Global South. This was achieved in alliance with intersectional
debates that allowed us to recognize the interconnections produced by the convergence of
different Brazilian regionalities, the intersection of races, genders, sexualities, generations,
corporealities, and multiple affective expressions.
The present Dossier emerges as a response to our call to the event participants and other
interested parties: an appeal to mobilize poetically, critically, and emotionally in constructing
this memory record. In this gathering, we combine narratives that embrace our bodies, ideas,
research, experiences, creativities, feelings, critiques, and desires, all intertwined with you, the
readers, who will join us on this journey.
The Meeting of Poéticas Cuir. Cuir - intentionally spelled with a "C" - aims to
problematize the epistemic locus of the very concept. We intend to provoke a displacement of
the presumed place of origin of the term and expand its understanding. Cuir is understood here
as an itinerant manifestation. We aim not simply to translate the queer concept into a Latin
American or Brazilian version. Instead, we aspire to explore the multiple possibilities and