Resumo:
The article intends to conduct an analysis of transvestites social experiences with imprisonment, especially as regards to the production of (in)visibility and violence. From the perspective of intersectional feminism and critical criminology, as well as having the historical materialist method as theoretical basis, it is understood that transvestites are criminally selectable not only because of their gender identities, but also on grounds of sexuality, social class, race/ethnicity and aesthetics – passing through a process of criminalization only experienced by them in prison. This means that relations of oppression to which they are subjected consider all these dimensions of human difference and that their bodies manifest the social issue themselves, expressing inequalities resulting from experience with poverty, racism, transphobia/cissexism and aesthetic standards. This analysis is the result of dissertation in Social Service and is based on interviews with transvestites, their fellow prisoners and prison technicians, in addition to participant observation of workshops with them in prison and with the organized social movement of transvestites.
