Transexperiências espaciais: proposta geocartográfica queer/transviada a partir do mapeamento dos assassinatos de pessoas trans no Brasil entre 2017 e 2022

Abstract

This research is part of one of the fields of Geography, which we call the Geography of Gender and Sexualities, whose studies seek to understand and discuss the relationship of these two markers with geographic space. Thus, we look at transgender spatial experiences to understand how and to what extent they are affected by the cisheteronormative space, which is why we propose to analyze from Geography the violence that these transgressive bodies suffer in Brazil, which since 2008 has led the ranking of the most violent countries for trans survival. In this perspective, cartography is used in this work as a primordial language in the investigative process and that directs us to our central objective, which is to elaborate a queer/transviada geo cartographic proposal that apprehends the production of spatialities of transgender people, taking into account violence as a potential experience that builds the subjectivities and intersubjectivities of these individuals. To do so, we followed a quali-quantitative approach, which included, in addition to a bibliographical review, the analysis of data from the Rede Trans Brasil, as well as the cartographic method proposed by Slocum et al. (2013). For the appreciation of the results, the impressions of trans people who read the representations were recorded. Therefore, aware that maps do not need to be limited to Euclidean metrics and that they have an active role in the geographic investigation, among the results, it is observed that the cartogram, based on its visual intensity variable, drew attention to the fact that the region Northeast contains the highest number of murders of transgender people in Brazil between 2017 and 2022., which prompted us to analyze and problematize not only the reasons and causes that lead this region to have these alarming data, but also, through anticartogram, to question the factors that lead some Brazilian states, such as Acre and Santa Catarina, to have few registered cases. Finally, we show that the maps created in the context of this research play an active role in the geographical investigation, playing a role in denouncing and contesting the violence committed against the transgender population in Brazil.