Ofensivas antigênero na Câmara Municipal de João Pessoa: uma análise sobre legislação e discursos

Abstract

Transnational events, which took place in the 1990s and were organized by the UN, opened space for a period of active and reactive politicization of the notion of gender and reproductive and sexual rights. Studies identify the moment as a new temporality, marked by the creation of conditions for the renewed and simultaneous eruption of anti-gender politics. Due to the massive occupation of the extreme right in public institutions, such as the Legislative Houses, in Latin American countries, such as Brazil, the anti-gender offensives have assumed places of relevance in contexts of political transition. Paying attention to the absence of studies aimed at understanding how offensives are constructed and pulverized in local contexts, this research will be concerned with taking stock of the antigender crusades found in the City Council of João Pessoa (CCJP) from the year 2016 to 2022. It will also deal with presenting the institutional flows and the processing of bills in the Legislative House from an ethnography of legislative processes, using action documents and records found in the Legislative Support System (LSS). As a result, I present an analysis about the attempts to approve bills on the prohibition of neutral or inclusive language in the municipality of João Pessoa, exposing the bureaucratic procedures and the political and discursive maneuvers used in favor of their approvals, understanding that this issue has become one of the current and constantly attacked themes by neoconservative, religious or secular alliances.