Teacher – travesty – metamorphic

the body while space and time, atmosphere and time

Abstract

Discussing body, gender and sexuality in the field of Geography still causes controversy, especially when travesty, transgender women and men narrate their own experiences of space and place. Trans bodies in geographic teaching and individual formation breaking with the neutrality discourse that for a long time the Geography has dodged when addressing gender and sexuality.  In this way, it is possible to cogitate that a body, a individual, a trans teacher and her pedagogical practice not only represents part of what is considered a school landscape but also questions a stigma that is attributed from a transphobic social imaginary about certain landscape essays. The travesty and geographic body marked by metamorphosis and stigmas, seeks a new way of producing knowledge and educational demands, to promote visibility and open paths between landscapes, territories, and places, even if in slow but large steps within a society that condemns people who are outside a certain compulsory cisheterosexuality.

KEYWORDS: Transvestite. Body. Metamorphic. Geography. Place.