Deputravas negras nas brechas do cis-tema e da branquitude: um olhar sobre as legislaturas de Robeyoncé Lima e Érica Malunguinho.

Abstract

The present text is the result of a research that had as its general objective to analyze the dynamics of parliamentary action of trans women and travesti who act in mandates for deputy in Brazil, and as specific objectives: 1) to investigate the political agenda of the current legislative mandates in which trans women and travesti act; 2)map challenges and possibilities in the legislative performance of trans women and travesti; and 3) understand how the categories of gender and race are present in the political activities of these deputies. In the research, we seek to understand displacements produced when trans women and travesti, who declare themselves black, are included in candidacies and activities in the legislature, considering the problem of a still significant absence of these social actresses in occupying legislative positions, especially those with greater power and visibility, such as state and federal deputy. The mandates chosen for the study were those of Érica Malunguinho, elected as state deputy in São Paulo, and Robeyoncé Lima, elected in a collective mandate called Juntas, also for the position of state deputy in Pernambuco. To conduct the research, we developed a methodological design that included 1) a bibliographical review on the topic, 2) conducting a semi-structured interview, and 3) gathering institutional documents produced in each of the two mandates. The results showed that the deputies sought to share perspectives in their mandates, either through a plural team coordinated by Érica Malunguinho, or by multiplying the voices and the possibility of building a new political project through the collective mandate, as in the case of Robeyoncé, with the Juntas. In addition, we observed that the candidacies of both were little driven by the party and had little funding in relation to cis and white candidates from higher classes, from different parties. Regarding the exercise of their mandate, it was possible to conclude that, in general, they still have difficult insertion, recognition and legitimacy within the Assemblies, either due to episodes of transphobia, or because their right to speak is denied. In addition, the conviction in the restitution of possession and in a political project that is pedagogical, based on the struggle in favor of women, the black and indigenous population, against class inequality, and all the dismantling of public service to which a supposed new politics has been committed to, represents what the mandates of Robeyoncé Lima and Érica Malunguinho bring to their respective legislative assemblies.