NARRATIVES AND MEMORIES OF BLACK AND NON-BLACK LESBIAN AND GAY TEACHERS FROM THE MUNICIPALITY OF ITAMARAJU/BA
teaching, blackness, sexual dissidence, school.
The present research aims to work with openly gay/lesbian black and non-black teachers who are teaching basic education in public schools in the city of Itamaraju-BA. Thus, this text presents reflections on the narratives of teachers who work in a formal education environment. With this, the research entitled “Narratives and memories of black and non-black lesbian and gay teachers in the city of Itamaraju/BA” was designed with the intention of unfolding the silencing existing in the educational spaces of black and non-black gay and lesbian professionals regarding race/ethnicity and sexual orientation/gender identity. The methodological paths taken ensured a qualitative research, using a conversation methodology, as the dialogue and exchanges between the subjects allow recreations and representations of internal and external experiences. From this, the following questions were asked: how do these dissident sexuality education professionals deal with homophobia and racism inside and outside the classroom? How is the involvement of these subjects with the school community? How is work carried out in environments that reproduce heteronormativity? Is there homophobia/veiled racism or not among the white and straight teachers themselves? Finally, it became evident that in the school there are discourses that clash with the subjects that blur the norm of race and sexuality. This was punctuated in the dialogues with the interviewees who still live in a school space that corroborates with the maintenance of the silencing of their gay and lesbian bodies. In the meantime, I present as a final product an e-book composed of my narrative and the narratives of the interviewed subjects. This work, which is still under construction, aims to enhance the discourses of race and sexuality in the school space.