Teoria Queer: uma política pós identitária para a educação

Abstract

The socalled sexual “minorities” are today much more visible than before. Accordingly, there is also more conflict between them and conservative groups. This confrontation, which should be observed closely by educators and students of culture, becomes even more complex if we consider that the great challenge is not to affirm that gender and sexual positions have multiplied and overcome all types of binarisms, but to admit that all borders are being constantlycrossed over and that some social subjects live precisely on the border. There is, then, a newsocial dynamics in action in the gender and sexual movements (and theories). It is within this framework that we should understand queer theory. Acknowledging that an identity politics can become part of that very system which it wants to question, queer theorists propose a post-identity theory and politics. Taking their inspiration from the French post-structuralism,they critique the heterosexual/homosexual opposition, which they think is the central categoryorganizing social practices, knowledge and relationships among subjects. What, after all, this theory has to say to the field of education?