Neste artigo, problematizo os limites das instituições sociais em lidar com os sujeitos que fogem às normas de gênero. Deter-me-ei principalmente nas respostas que a escola tem dado aos/às estudantes que apresentam performances de gênero que fogem ao considerado normal.

Daniela Glamour Garcia olha para a câmera com olhos inquietos. Está visivelmente sensibilizada pelos meses em que esteve protagonizando um documentário sobre

In the studies on trans-people, transvestites, black population, women, among others, the state appears as a fundamental agent that distributes in a non-egalitarian way the recognition of humanity. There is a core bibliographical reference shared by this field of research. Michael Foucault's concept of biopower, as a government technique that aims to "to make live, to let die", is recurrent. When the research refers to state violence, it usually triggers the notion of "sovereignty", also by Foucault's, as opposed to governability (a set of techniques that are life-oriented). More recently Achille Mbembe's concept of necropower has become part of this conceptual corpus. This article suggests another concept: necrobiopower. Necropower and biopower are inseparable terms for one to think about the relation of the State with the human groups that inhabited and inhabit the marks of the Nation-State. Livable life and killable life, to use the terms of Giorgio Agamben, are forms of population management and cannot be put in a chronological perspective, where the necropower (or sovereign power) would have been surpassed by biopower.

Sexuality and trans experiences: from the hospital to the bedroom

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The family idealization, with binary divisions of tasks based on sex differences (to the man, the street; to the woman, the house) and the image of home as a place of spiritual comfort, forbidden to conflicts and disputes, are idyllic; they have little connection with reality and function to restrict the notion of family to the landmarks of heterosexuality. On that account, this paper aims at discussing the diversity and plasticity of the category "family" and, moreover, points out that there are ongoing disputes between a traditional view of family, and another, that emphasizes the autonomy of the subject to attribute new meanings to the relationships and to the organization of new family structures.

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