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Comunidades virtuais na construção de identidades LGBT+ | Theo Nery | TEDxPinheiros


I never told my girlfriend the
time but when I turned to her and
I asked one afternoon that it seems
that time will never pass if she
continue sending I was a
man was repeating a scene that I
he had read stories in a story and
communities where I found them were
fundamental part for me to understand
as a trans person but the story I
I want to start or tell you today.
came very much before this afternoon
You have to start by saying that I am a
child of the 90s that means that
I grew up together with the internet
regardless of the speed of access I
I’ve always been behind the stories that
people could tell me whether to trade
blogs at dawn internet dial up with
my friends even dozens of videos that
I can see today from the weekly
youtube
these stories of networking me
inspired to find representations of the
that I could be maybe because when I
Look at real life was very difficult.
find the representation to be a
lgbt people
if you go look for example the movies
have an American association that calls
glad and they look at the
lgbt representativeness in films
made by the largest producers of clay
in 2016 in films made by these
Producers only 18% had characters
lgbt and between those less than one third
were women and only one character was
a trans character
if we look at the scenery
Brazilian the situation gets much better
the super-interesting magazine made a
lgbt characters in the
Brazilian soap operas
of 2010 here were 57 character
around 25 productions as a basis for
comparison only major Brazilian broadcaster
produced 43 novels in the same period with
about 20 characters each
it is easy to understand how at the beginning of my
adolescence in the 2000s was very
difficult for me
I understood that two women could
to love one another and that the only
knowledge I had about gender
age were on working transvestites
sexual relations that did not even have their
recognized, but it is a subject that I
dominated at that time
harry potter thanks internet bandwidth
wide and you could find me any
day after class
reading and debating on internet forums
about the magical world and all
possibilities they had and it was
of these trips I met the fans
fictions written stories
by fans and people who were on their time
creating alternative destinations
characters or expanding the universes
originals and for some reason
key people fanfictions has a certain
lgbt character obsession
perhaps precisely because you can not find the
characters elsewhere
open a new world of possibilities
for me
for the first time I could read a
story about two women who
they were in love and had a relationship
healthy and there at the height of my 13 years
I started to look at mine.
feelings and see that maybe what I
I felt for that girl in my class
It’s not just like that , maybe not friendship.
It was another long time ago.
passing and getting more stories
new networks and not only did I read
these stories that I could talk to
with people coming in and online
gave me a chance that I would never
had had in real life that it was once
a conversation was very difficult for her
it could be so easy when
I quit the chat and look up the story
and search for the next conversation
the time passed for my
I was going through adolescence, I went
making it more and more comfortable with
My sexuality has been researching
I found a label that for me most does.
sense that it is sexual bread that feels
attracted by people independent of
genre but think about gender still
It’s been a long time so we’ll arrive.
in 2017 and a successful young adult
amazing experiences a resume
It’s beautiful in depression and not pressure in
sense of the type operates faculties and that
to do with my life but of pressure on
Osorio’s sense has forgotten how
produces serotonin and it only knows how
creates more reasons to hate you
I did not have much energy to do
other things so I really liked
time in my bed again
researching some more stories
stories of people who had
who were living with anxiety or
which were simply out of standard
the standard mental health standard of
bodies of sexuality patterns
standards of social norms
format videos found Account
comic books
I wanted to consume I wanted to understand the
that was all that and that was the first
time I came across the history of
a non – binary binary one person does not
person who does not identify himself in the binary
of gender nor as a man nor as a
woman and was reading about the experiences
that person of that character who
something clicked inside of me
I began to understand that maybe I
need to go back and think about the
gender issue and the first thing that
I found out that being 3 in Brazil is
very difficult
Brazil is the country that kills people the most
in the world, this is only one of the
indicators of the Brazilian reality
because I would want to be part of a
group that heath every victim of violence
and discrimination because I wanted to be
think about something to take away from me
the privilege of being understood in the genre
which had been so designated hours and
always been a little out of the
standard but it was still very
different
We arrived that afternoon when we
The first time I said out loud that I
I’m not a woman
I can not see myself as one who
maybe I’ve never been but talk to
person I love in the moment of
intimacy was only the first step to
that could live the most
authentic
I will tell everyone so I did
This is the only way that a young millenary
I could do with post on the networks
social
The truth is that I did not expect to
The answer I received was so much love.
so much affection both the responses of
courage is I often cried reading
and weep until today all the
times I remember this story more
I think the best thing was not just what the
people came to talk about me more
when people came to share
own stories
people I knew people I
did not know that they were not so close
next friends of friends and acquaintances
that one day I may have crossed over into a
ted event that wanted to talk about the
reflections that had had the doubts
they had the repercussions and then for me
It was very clear that it’s okay to have
doubts
It’s okay, I do not know how to do it.
question and it’s okay to find out and
these networks make up parts of new networks
What we are generating then is I
seeking more and more stories
to find me
it is within the stories I sought in the
youtube for example for me were very
many strong examples
I went to find slayer world is that
mobilized more than a thousand people
to tell about their experiences
in their findings on identity of
genre is garden that will talk about how
It is doubts that I do not understand
change your mind when you go exploring
their own sexuality to their own
gender identity and Canada already a
transbrasilian man who is going to speak
about reality and transbrasil and the
difficulties in having their rights
being valid then the
stories are very large and when
arrive and when I tell my
story I notice that I’m opening
a door not only for me but for others
People I think are important in this regard.
because my story was very
luck I had access to knowledge
that I needed to understand myself
I have a family that loves me and that
accepted as I am I had friendship
who supported me when I thought I
I was not going to make it anymore, I had the nets
on and off the internet to me
allowed to get here but not
is the reality of most of the
lgbt community
when I look at these numbers
I know there’s still a lot you need
Be done
there are many spaces and many networks
being built that allow the
people feel welcome
discover but there is a very
great for these networks to be
transposed and leave small
left only on the internet and come to life
real
That’s why every time I
I have the opportunity to tell my
story I tell it not like it’s lonely
mine but as if I could open
space for several other voices to
today can not or can not use the
Your own wishes to speak have this
space for lgbt communities to
what people can is lgbts people
lgbt identities are understood to be
scattered not only in networks within the
Internet
thank you
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