Transmasculinity, race and class

the pitfall of digital social networks

Abstract

The objective of this article is to discuss the contemporary paradoxes faced by black, poor and peripheral transmasculinity when they put their bodies in dialogue with real and virtual spatialities. In this context, based on the discursive representations of Demetrio Campos' digital social networks, it is interesting to discuss the ways in which a counter-hegemonic masculinity is constituted and orientates itself, many times, in the path of the patterns of idealization of a "glamorous" universal being, which in turn, produces traps and captures such experiences by showing daily racial asymmetry. The permeability of real life, now hyper-connected, in constant flux with the multiple existential and performative possibilities of virtual spatialities, is unquestionable, so it is particularly relevant to problematize the discursive representations from experiences that challenge hegemonic logic in order to question the representations that sustain it. We suggest that infirming the black, poor and peripheral transmasculine narrative and performativity destabilizes and displaces structural power relations. This research was done, by mixed methods, with a qualitative, descriptive approach, through the interdisciplinary interaction of queer, contemporary cultural and gender studies.

KEYWORDS: Transmasculinity. Discursive Representations. Queer. Racism.