Tra‘vestir’: o vestuário e a linguagem na construção da identidade de gênero travesti

Abstract

The present work aims to explore the relationship between clothing, language and identity. Therefore, a study was proposed that investigates travesti gender identity, seeking to understand the influence of the act of dressing, its signs and enunciation on the identity process of travestis, through a discursive analysis of the song and video clip for “Mulher” by the artist Linn da Quebrada. Therefore, it is necessary to approach how the process of individual and social identification occurs, understand what the identity relationships are with culture, conceptualize terms such as gender and gender identity and thus be able to analyze travestilidade as an identity. Also analyze how clothing has signs and symbols that have been attached to clothes throughout history, to understand how these signs directly impact the individual's gender identity and performativity. Finally, also understand how language is a tool for constructing the subject and discursive practices, making our perception of reality tangible. Given this, the research is qualitative in nature and, to achieve the objectives, bibliographic and documentary research procedures were used. By analyzing the song “Mulher” and the clip “blasFêmea”, by Linn da Quebrada, it was concluded that travestilidade is an identity experience located in the field of gender that, to be socially produced, depends on the clothing signs that communicate and reiterate femininity and the social practice of language to construct it based on a symbolic, enunciative and discursive process.