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Conference title: “Forging identity in the face of adversity: Psychosociology of violence against LGBTQIA+ people”.

This talk focuses on the construction of subjectivity as a power to act in the face of violence based on gender identity and sexual orientation, i.e. homophobia (Welzer-Lang, Dutey, Dorais, 1994) or LGBTQIA+phobia (Junqueira, 2007). These terms refer to the set of social discourses and practices that attack all those who transgress the sexual and gender norm (Borrillo and Mécary, 2019), which is based on the constraint of heterosexuality (Rich, 1980). More than an episodic and individual expression of discrimination, it is a logic of heterosexist domination (Fassin, 1999), which establishes power relationships and controls bodies and subjectivities through sexuality (Foucault, 2010) and gender (Butler, 1999). Based on an empirical approach, this analysis takes as its framework an investigation carried out in Brazil, with LGBTQIA+ people, which articulates: the ethnographic approach of socio-anthropology (Bouvier, 2000; Mauss, 2013); a psychosocial perspective (Moscovici, 2014); and the ethical foundations of feminist epistemologies of situated knowledge (Haraway, 2007). Drawing on Mahmood's (2008) concept of agency, my starting point is the discrimination they have suffered, analyzing how this experience contributes to their subjectivation.

About Diego Paz

A specialist in Gender Studies and LGBTQIA+ Studies, Diego Paz holds doctorates in sociology from Université Paris 8 (Paris, France) and in psychology from Université Catholique du Pernambouc (Recife, PE, Brazil), and is a member of the Laboratoire d'études de genre et de sexualité (LEGS UMR - CNRS, Université Paris VIII and Paris Nanterre); and a part-time lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne. E-mail: diego.paz@univ-paris1.fr ; cestdiegopaz@icloud.com.

Latest publications

2024. « Travestie ». Dictionnaire du genre en traduction [en ligne]. Barcelona, Paris, Helsinki, Casablanca, Ithaca (Avec Marina Duarte et Larissa Pelúcio), ISSN: 2967- 3623. https://worldgender.cnrs.fr

2020. « Le genre de la nation et le x de la question. Controverses linguistiques dans le contexte politique brésilien ». Cahiers du Genre, Paris, 69, 2020 (Avec Larissa Pelúcio et Rodrigo Borba).

2020. « #paslui : féminismes brésiliens dans l’hexagone européen ». Revista Estudos Feministas, Florianópolis, 28(3), e71498 (avec Larissa Pelúcio). (Titre original en portugais : #elenão: feminismos brasileiros no hexágono europeu)