Diz/topias

Building places of (r)existence in brazilian poetry of transgender authorship

Abstract

The imaginary and our experiences are transformed, through literary creation, into a body-text, capable of building other possible places in the face of the impossible of coloniality. In this way, we think the poetry of transgender authorship as diz/topias, that is, poetry as words to occupy worlds, a writing that integrates the process of self-recovery and invents places [topias/tropes] to discuss our existence and a resistance conceived as future: possible worlds of dreams, affection, creativity, collectivity. Thus, we will discuss from the works Mem(orais): poeticas de byxa-travesty preta de cortes (2019), by Luna Souto Ferreira; Escuiresendo: ontografias poéticas (2020), by Abigail Campos Leal, Sal a Gosto (2018), by Esteban Rodrigues and Profecia (2022), by Diana Salu, how their poetics invent new places, diz/topias, capable of integrating a process of self-recovery and the invention of other places that make possible not only dreams, struggles and affections; but also to go beyond the pain, consolidating our efforts to exist and resist this world that wants us silenced and dead.