Tecendo autonomia e desafiando normas: contribuição dos acompanhamentos singulares e territoriais junto a pessoas dissidentes de gêneros e sexualidades

Abstract

The text developed and presented below reports on my experiences as an extension student of the ResisTO Project in partnership with a state public policy facility in João Pessoa, Paraíba. The actions were carried out using Singular and Territorial Follow-ups as a social technology to understand the social reality of the population of dissident genders and sexualities and in the search for joint solutions and strategies. The report aims to analyze the contributions of social occupational therapy technology as a strategy for coping with situations of violence and access to social rights for the gender and sexuality dissident population and is organized as follows: the constitution of the social field as a possibility for action for occupational therapists and the importance of understanding the incidence of social markers of difference in the life stories, and specifically, in the life stories of two users that I followed. These users deal daily with the struggle and resistance for their identity construction, challenging cisnormativity to guarantee their survival. Therefore, through the Follow-ups, it was possible to explore ways of decentralizing normative conceptions in relation to subjects and everyday life, and to develop joint strategies for confronting violence and rights violations, contributing to their social participation and the exercise of citizenship.