“Como usar uma seringa para engravidar?” uma netnografia de grupos de inseminação caseira no facebook

Abstract

This dissertation was presented to the Graduate Program in Human Rights, Citizenship, and Public Policy at the Federal University of Paraíba. It aims to discuss the phenomenon of home insemination through a netnography of Facebook groups. This phenomenon involves performing an artificial insemination procedure in a home environment without the assistance of qualified health professionals. Within the human rights field, this work aimed to conduct a virtual ethnography of Facebook groups that promote discussions and meetings between informal sperm donors and people seeking pregnancy. This netnography, supported by thematic and discourse analysis, allowed us to understand the relationship between the sexual and reproductive rights of the LGBTQIAPN+ population and cybercommunication networks, investigate the presence and absence of eugenic discourses, and investigate practices of virtual, economic, psychological, epistemic, and symbolic violence specifically directed at the LGBTQIAPN+ population. Throughout the research, a total of 49 active Home Insemination groups were mapped on Facebook. This practice began in 2014 and reached its peak popularity between 2018 and 2022. The investigation was then conducted in the groups with the highest information flow (over 10,000 participants), revealing particularities such as the categories-identities with which users identify and name other participants (Trying, Donors, Mediators, Trolls), practices of cyberharassment, extortion, and illegal sale of genetic material, as well as serial donation practices by individuals with a phenotype considered more "desirable" because it resembles a hegemonic beauty standard. Finally, the conclusion is that public policies based on an intersectional and participatory perspective are a possible alternative to guarantee the visibility of reproductive demands systematically erased by the colonial matrix of power.